Quotes by Edward Young

About Edward Young:

Edward Young was an English poet, best remembered for Night-Thoughts.
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By all means use some time to be alone.

Edward Young

Virtue alone has majesty in death.

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

The course of Nature is the art of God.

Edward Young

At thirty a man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves; and re-resolves; then dies the same.

Edward Young

For her own breakfast she'll project a scheme, Nor take her tea without a strategem.

Edward Young

The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.

Edward Young

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Edward Young

Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.

Edward Young

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Edward Young

None think the great unhappy, but the great.

Edward Young

Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.

Edward Young

A God all mercy is a God unjust.

Edward Young

By night an atheist half believes in a God.

Edward Young

Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.

Edward Young

Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.

Edward Young

A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.

Edward Young

How blessings brighten as they take their flight.

Edward Young

A friend is worth all hazards we can run.

Edward Young

A Christian is the highest style of man.

Edward Young

Author Bio

  • NameEdward Young
  • DescriptionEnglish poet
  • Born1683
  • DiedApril 5, 1765
  • CountryKingdom Of Great Britain
  • ProfessionPoet; Author