Quotes By Edward Young

The man that blushes is not quite a brute.

The man that makes a character, makes foes.

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.

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

A friend is worth all hazards we can run.

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.

By all means use some time to be alone.

Virtue alone has majesty in death.

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.

The house of laughter makes a house of woe.

They only babble who practise not reflection.

By night an atheist half believes in a God.

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

Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.

Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise.

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

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

A man of pleasure is a man of pains.

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.

A God all mercy is a God unjust.

All men think all men mortal, but themselves.

Wonder is involuntary praise.

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

The course of Nature is the art of God.

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

Truth never was indebted to a lie.