“A God all mercy is a God unjust.”
“A man of pleasure is a man of pains.”
Source: The Complaint Or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality, to which are Added a Glossary, a Paraphrase on Part of the Book of Job, and a Poem on the Last Day
“He sins against this life, who slights the next.”
Source: Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job
“Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.”
Source: Night Thoughts, on Life, Death, and Immortality ... With the life of the author. [With plates, including a portrait.]
“The purpose firm is equal to the deed”
Source: Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job
“The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done”
“The course of Nature is the art of God”
Source: Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job
“Truth never was indebted to a lie”
Source: Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job
“Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise”
Source: Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job
“Wishing of all employments is the worst”
Source: Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job
“They only babble who practise not reflection”
“On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.”
Source: The Works of the Author of The Night-thoughts
“Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.”
Source: Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality
“What ardently we wish, we soon believe.”
Source: Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job
“'T is greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven.”
Source: The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.: Revised and Collated with the Earliest Editions. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author
“And friend received with thumps upon the back.”
Source: The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.: Revised and Collated with the Earliest Editions. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author
“It is great and manly to disdain disguise; it shows our spirit and proves our strength.”
“He mourns the dead who lives as they desire.”
Source: Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job
“Creation sleeps! 'T is as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause,- An awful pause! prophetic of her end.”
Source: The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.: Revised and Collated with the Earliest Editions. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author
“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.”
Source: The poetical works of Edward Young
“Be wise to-day; 't is madness to defer.”
Source: The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.: Revised and Collated with the Earliest Editions. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author
“The man of wisdom is the man of years.”
Source: The complaint; or, Night thoughts, on life, death, and immortality. [Followed by] A paraphrase on part of the book of Job. With the life of the author [signed G.W.].
“Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other's heel.”
Source: Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job
“Pity swells the tide of love.”
Source: The Works of the Author of The Night-thoughts
“Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.”
Source: Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job
“To know the world, not love her, is thy point; She gives but little, nor that little, long.”
“Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor ; who lives to fancy, never can be rich.”
Source: Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality
“Take God from nature, nothing great is left.”
Source: Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job
“Nature delights in progress; in advance.”
Source: Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job
“Time elaborately thrown away.”
Source: Night Thoughts ... With notes ... by the Rev. C. E. de Coetlogon ... To which are added the author's poem on the Last Day, the paraphrase on part of the Book of Job [with other poems], and his life
“We see time's furrows on another's brow, And death intrench'd, preparing his assault; How few themselves in that just mirror see!”
Source: Night Thoughts, on Life, Death and Immortality
“The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss.”
“Where Nature's end of language is declin'd, And men talk only to conceal the mind.”
Source: THE POETICAL WORKS OF THE REV. Dr. E. YOUNG WITH THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.
“In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps; has no harvest from it, but carries the burden of age without the wages of experience; nor knows himself old, but from his infirmities, the parish register, and the contempt of mankind. And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.”
Source: The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.: Revised and Collated with the Earliest Editions. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author
“Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life!”
Source: The complete poetical works of Edward Young. With life
“Praise, more divine than prayer; prayer points our ready path to heaven; praise is already there.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins
“Mine is the night, with all her stars.”
Source: The Complaint: Or, Night-thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality: To which is Added, a Paraphrase on Part of the Book of Job..
“Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.”
Source: The Complaint; Or, Night Thoughts
“What tender force, what dignity divine, what virtue consecrating every feature; around that neck what dross are gold and pearl!”
Source: The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.: Revised and Collated with the Earliest Editions. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author
“Beautiful as sweet, And young as beautiful, and soft as young, And gay as soft, and innocent as gay!”
“The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins
“The soul of man was made to walk the skies.”
Source: Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality
“Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where fortune smiles; the wretched he forsakes.”
“Ah, how unjust to Nature and himself Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man!”
Source: Night Thoughts, etc
“There is nothing of which men are more liberal than their good advice, be their stock of it ever so small; because it seems to carry in it an intimation of their own influence, importance or worth.”
Source: The works of the author of the Night-thoughts. Revised and corrected by himself
“Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, "That all men are about to live."”
Source: Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job
“It calls Devotion! genuine growth of night! Devotion! Daughter of Astronomy! An undevout astronomer is mad!”
“Prayer ardent opens heaven.”
Source: The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.: Revised and Collated with the Earliest Editions. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author
“Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven.”
Source: The complete poetical works of Edward Young. With life
“The booby father craves a booby son, And by Heaven's blessing thinks himself undone.”
Source: The poetical works of Edward Young
