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Edward Young Quotes

Type:
Poet Quotes
Category:
English Poet Quotes
Date of Birth:
July 3, 1683
Date of Death:
April 5, 1765
Nationality:
English
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Edward Young

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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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