Quotes By Edward Young

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

By all means use some time to be alone.

Virtue alone has majesty in death.

The house of laughter makes a house of woe.

Truth never was indebted to a lie.

Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.

Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.

The purpose firm is equal to the deed.

How blessings brighten as they take their flight.

Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise.

Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Too low they build who build below the skies.

The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Wonder is involuntary praise.

None think the great unhappy, but the great.

A Christian is the highest style of man.

The man that blushes is not quite a brute.

The course of Nature is the art of God.

The man that makes a character, makes foes.

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

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

Wise it is to comprehend the whole.

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.

An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.

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.

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

Wishing of all employments is the worst.