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Type: Poet Quotes Category: English Poet Quotes Date of Birth: July 3, 1683 Date of Death: April 5, 1765 Nationality: English Find on Amazon: Edward Young Related Authors: Alexander Pope W. H. Auden Samuel Taylor Coleridge John Dryden Percy Bysshe Shelley Alfred Lord Tennyson Herbert Read |
A Christian is the highest style of man.
Edward Young A friend is worth all hazards we can run. Edward Young A God all mercy is a God unjust. Edward Young A man of pleasure is a man of pains. Edward Young A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs. Edward Young All men think all men mortal, but themselves. Edward Young All men think that all men are mortal but themselves. Edward Young An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there. Edward Young Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed. Edward Young By all means use some time to be alone. Edward Young By night an atheist half believes in a God. Edward Young By night an atheist half believes in God. Edward Young Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure. Edward Young How blessings brighten as they take their flight. Edward Young Less base the fear of death than fear of life. Edward Young Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority. Edward Young Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die. Edward Young Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy. Edward Young None think the great unhappy, but the great. Edward Young One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame. Edward Young Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire. Edward Young Our birth is nothing but our death begun. Edward Young Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled. Edward Young Procrastination is the thief of time. Edward Young Read nature; nature is a friend to truth. Edward Young Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise. Edward Young Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote. Edward Young Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live forever? Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all? This is a miracle; and that no more. Edward Young The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought. Edward Young The course of Nature is the art of God. Edward Young The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done. Edward Young The house of laughter makes a house of woe. Edward Young The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety. Edward Young The man that blushes is not quite a brute. Edward Young The man that makes a character, makes foes. Edward Young The purpose firm is equal to the deed. Edward Young The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss. Edward Young There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired. Edward Young They only babble who practise not reflection. Edward Young Those who build beneath the stars build too low. Edward Young Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness. Edward Young Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform. Edward Young Too low they build who build below the skies. Edward Young Too low they build, who build beneath the stars. Edward Young Truth never was indebted to a lie. Edward Young Virtue alone has majesty in death. Edward Young Wise it is to comprehend the whole. Edward Young Wishing of all employments is the worst. Edward Young Wonder is involuntary praise. Edward Young |
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