Edward Young Quotes
Edward Young was an English Poet. He is remembered for Night Thoughts. Edward Young was born at Upham near Winchester. He got his early education from Winchester College, he matriculated at New College, Oxford in 1702. His first book that published was an Epistle to …Land Landoune in 1713, followed by Poem on the Last Day. This poem was dedicated to Queen Anne. At that time the patronage was slowly fading, Edward Young never received the degree of patronage that up to his mark. In 1728 Edward Young became a Royal Champlain. Edward Young literature was not so successful, still Edward Young is said to have been a brilliant talker.
Edward Young Quotes
A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.
- Edward Young
Affliction is the good man’s shining scene; Prosperity conceals his brightest ray; As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.
- Edward Young
All men think all men mortal, but themselves.
- Edward Young
Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
- Edward Young
By night an atheist half believes in a 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
In records that defy the tooth of time.
- Edward Young
In youth, what disappointments of our own making: in age, what disappointments from the nature of things.
- Edward Young
Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man.
- 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
The love of praise, howe’er concealed by art, reigns more or less, and glows in ev’ry heart.
- Edward Young
Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
- Edward Young
None think the great unhappy, but the great.
- Edward Young
Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.
- Edward Young
Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled.
- Edward Young
Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.
- Edward Young
Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise.
- Edward Young
Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue.
- 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 course of Nature is the art of God.
- 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 weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.
- Edward Young
Their feet through faithless leather met the dirt, And oftener chang’d their principles than shirt.
- Edward Young
They only babble who practise not reflection.
- Edward Young
Those who build beneath the stars build too low.
- 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
Thou art so witty, profligate and thin, At once we think thee Satan, Death and Sin.
- Edward Young
Virtue alone has majesty in death.
- Edward Young
Who does the best that circumstance allows, Does well, acts nobly, angels could no more.
- Edward Young
Wishing of all employments is the worst.
-Edward Young
Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps;
And pyramids are pyramids in vales.
Each man makes his own stature, builds himself.
Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids;
Her monuments shall last when Egypt’s fall.
- Edward Young
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