Quotes by Edward Young

• The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.
• The purpose firm is equal to the deed.
• The man that makes a character, makes foes.
• The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
• The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.
• The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
• The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.
• The course of Nature is the art of God.
• Too low they build who build below the skies.
• 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.
• The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.
• 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.
• Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform.
• Truth never was indebted to a lie.
• Virtue alone has majesty in death.
• Wise it is to comprehend the whole.
• Wishing of all employments is the worst.
• Wonder is involuntary praise.
• Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
• Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.
• Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.
• All men think all men mortal, but themselves.
• Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise.
• Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
• A friend is worth all hazards we can run.
• A God all mercy is a God unjust.
• A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.
• All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.
• An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.
• 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 a God.
• 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.
• Procrastination is the thief of time.
• A man of pleasure is a man of pains.
• Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.
• Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.
• Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.
• None think the great unhappy, but the great.
• Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.
• A Christian is the highest style of man.
• Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
• How blessings brighten as they take their flight.