Edward Young Quotes
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A land of levity is a land of guilt.
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The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.
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Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile.
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They most the world enjoy who least admire.
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The qualities all in a bee that we meet, In an epigram never should fail; The body should always be little and sweet, And a sting should be felt in its tail.
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Men before you have quit smoking - you can too!
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Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread.
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Live now; be damn'd hereafter.
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Nothing in Nature, much less conscious being, Was e'er created solely for itself.
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O! lost to virtue, lost to manly thought, Lost to the noble sallies of the soul! Who think it solitude to be alone.
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It is great and manly to disdain disguise; it shows our spirit and proves our strength.
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Old men love novelties; the last arriv'd Still pleases best; the youngest steals their smiles.
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On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
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Men should press forward, in fame's glorious chase; Nobles look backward, and so lose the race.
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None think the great unhappy, but the great.
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The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.
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Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How comet-like, it threatens while it shines.
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When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.
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A foe to God ne'er was true friend to man, Some sinister intent taints all he does.
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Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven.
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The first sure symptom of a mind in health Is rest of heart and pleasure felt at home.
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And friend received with thumps upon the back.
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How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
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A God alone can comprehend a God.
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To know the world, not love her, is thy point; She gives but little, nor that little, long.
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What ardently we wish, we soon believe.
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Amid my list of blessings infinite, stands this the foremost, "that my heart has bled."
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The man who consecrates his hours by vigorous effort, and an honest aim, at once he draws the sting of life and Death; he walks with nature; and her paths are peace.
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Midway from Nothing to the Deity!
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All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.
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