Quotes By Edward Young

Procrastination is the thief of time.

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

Too low they build who build below the skies.

Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.

Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise.

None think the great unhappy, but the great.

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

A Christian is the highest style of man.

The man that blushes is not quite a brute.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Wonder is involuntary praise.

The man that makes a character, makes foes.

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

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.

The course of Nature is the art of God.

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

Wise it is to comprehend the whole.

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

All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.

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.

They only babble who practise not reflection.

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

Wishing of all employments is the worst.

By night an atheist half believes in a God.

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform.

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

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

A man of pleasure is a man of pains.

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