Quotes By Edward Young

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

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

Wonder is involuntary praise.

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.

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

Wise it is to comprehend the whole.

All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.

They only babble who practise not reflection.

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.

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

Wishing of all employments is the worst.

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.

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

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

A God all mercy is a God unjust.

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

All men think all men mortal, but themselves.

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

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.

A friend is worth all hazards we can run.

Truth never was indebted to a lie.

Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

The purpose firm is equal to the deed.