Edward Young quotes
A Christian is the highest style of man.
A friend is worth all hazards we can run.
A God all mercy is a God unjust.
A man of pleasure is a man of pains.
A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.
All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.
Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!
Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
By all means use some time to be alone.
By night an atheist half believes in God.
Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.
How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.
None think the great unhappy, but the great.
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.
Our birth is nothing but our death begun.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise.
Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.
The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.
The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
The man that makes a character, makes foes.
The purpose firm is equal to the deed.
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.
They only babble who practise not reflection.
Those who build beneath the stars build too low.
To leave a sting within a brother's heart.
Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.
Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform.
Too low they build, who build beneath the stars.
Truth never was indebted to a lie.
Virtue alone has majesty in death.
Wishing of all employments is the worst.