Edward Young Quotes About Life
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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
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The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.
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He mourns the dead who lives as they desire.
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As soon as we have found the key of life, it opens the gates of death.
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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
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Think naught a trifle, though it small appear; Small stands the mountain, moments make the year, and trifles life.
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Ah! what is human life? How, like the dial's tardy-moving shade, Day after day slides from us unperceiv'd! The cunning fugitive is swift by stealth; Too subtle is the movement to be seen; Yet soon the hour is up--and we are gone.
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Creation sleeps! 'T is as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause,- An awful pause! prophetic of her end.
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