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Edward Young
115 quotes
“Life's cares are comforts; such by Heav'n design'd; He that hath none must make them, or be wretched.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: William Wordsworth (misattributed)
“The spirit walks of every day deceased.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites, Hell threatens.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen’d to the sun.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A friend is worth all hazards we can run.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Friendship's the wine of life; but friendship new (Not such was his) is neither strong nor pure.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How blessings brighten as they take their flight!”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: William Wordsworth (misattributed)
“The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg’d beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A death-bed ’s a detector of the heart.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Virtue alone has majesty in death.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Beautiful as sweet! And young as beautiful! and soft as young! And gay as soft! and innocent as gay.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Lovely in death the beauteous ruin lay; And if in death still lovely, lovelier there; Far lovelier! pity swells the tide of love.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Heaven’s Sovereign saves all beings but himself That hideous sight,—a naked human heart.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“... life is most enjoy'd when courted least, most worth, when disesteemed,...”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave, The deep damp vault, the darkness and the worm.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Man makes a death which Nature never made.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Wishing, of all employments, is the worst.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Man wants little, nor that little long.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A God all mercy is a God unjust.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“’Tis impious in a good man to be sad”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A Christian is the highest style of man.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“By night an atheist half believes a God.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Less base the fear of death than fear of life.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhal'd and went to heaven.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We see time’s furrows on another’s brow, And death intrench’d, preparing his assault; How few themselves in that just mirror see!”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Like our shadows, Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“While man is growing, life is in decrease; And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb. Our birth is nothing but our death begun.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That life is long which answers life's great end.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The man of wisdom is the man of years.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.”
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“Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Much learning shows how little mortals know; Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And all may do what has by man been done.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The man that blushes is not quite a brute.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What ardently we wish we soon believe.”
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“Truth never was indebted to a lie.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Prayer ardent opens heaven.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The house of laughter makes a house of woe.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A man of pleasure is a man of pains.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To frown at pleasure, and to smile in pain.”
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“Final Ruin fiercely drives Her plowshare o'er creation.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“'T is elder Scripture, writ by God's own hand,— Scripture authentic! uncorrupt by man.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source