“[The] public path of life Is dirty.”
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
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Famous Edward Young Quotes
“A dedication is a wooden leg.”
Source: Love of fame, the universal passion. In 7 satires [by E. Young].
“Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, A soldier should be modest as a maid.”
Source: The complete poetical works of Edward Young. With life
“Men should press forward, in fame's glorious chase; Nobles look backward, and so lose the race.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Edward Young: In Four Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions:
“The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away.”
Source: The poetical works of Edward Young
“One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven.”
Source: The complete poetical works of Edward Young. With life
“Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile.”
Source: Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality
“Heaven's Sovereign saves all beings but himselfThat hideous sight,-a naked human heart.”
Source: The Complaint; Or, Night Thoughts
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
“Ne'er to meet, or ne'er to part, is peace.”
Source: Young's Night thoughts. With life, critcal diss., and explanatory notes, by G. Gilfillan
“They most the world enjoy who least admire.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins
“A strange alternative * * *Must women have a doctor or a dance?”
Source: Extracts from Young's Night thoughts, with observations upon them
“Who, for the poor renown of being smart, Would leave a sting within a brother's heart?”
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
“Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled.”
Source: Night Thoughts
“How blessings brighten as they take their flight.”
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
“Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.”
Source: The poetical works of ... E. Young. With the life of the author. Cooke's ed
“Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.”
Source: Imperium Pelagi, a naval lyric. Epistles to Mr. Pope, concerning the authors of the age. Sea-piece. The foreign address; or the best argument for peace. Epitaph on Lord Aubrey Beauclerk. Reflections on the public situation of the kingdom. An epistle to the right hon. Sir Robert Walpole. The old man's relapse. Resignation. Tragedies. Prose works
“A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.”
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
“An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.”
Source: The complaint: or, Night-thoughts on life, death, and immortality. By E. Young
“Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.”
“Our birth is nothing but our death begun; As tapers waste, that instant they take fire.”
“The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.”
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