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“Independence existed for individual before liberty was established for all.”
Source: Night Thoughts: Or, the Complaint and the Consolation
“The house of laughter makes a house of woe.”
Source: The Works of the Author of The Night-thoughts
“Friendship's the wine of life.”
Source: Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality
“Distinguisht Link in Being's endless Chain! Midway from Nothing to the Deity!”
Source: The complaint, or, Night-thoughts on life, death, & immortality
“Time destroyed Is suicide, where more than blood is spilt.”
Source: Night Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality
Source: A vindication of providence: or, A true estimate of human life, discourse i
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 all may do what has by man been done.”
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
Source: The Complaint: Or, Night-thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality: To which is Added, a Paraphrase on Part of the Book of Job..
“None think the great unhappy, but the great.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Edward Young: In Four Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions:
“Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.”
Source: Night Thoughts, on Life, Death, and Immortality ... With the life of the author. [With plates, including a portrait.]
“But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.”
Source: The complete poetical works of Edward Young. With life
“At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.”
“We are not all great because we are inspired, but we feel great because we are.”
“Angels are men of a superior kind; Angels are men in lighter habit clad.”
Source: Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality
“The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.”
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
“Wonder is involuntary praise.”
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
“Titles are marks of honest men, and wise; The fool or knave that wears a title lies.”
Source: The Poems of Edward Young ...
Source: Night Thoughts on Life, Death & Immortality: To which is Added a Paraphrase on Part of the Book of Job, and the Last Day, a Poem
“Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue.”
Source: The Revenge: A Tragedy, in Five Acts
“Virtue alone has majesty in death.”
Source: The Complaint and Consolation; Or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality: To which is Added, The Force of Religion
“Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform and mortal men lay hold on heaven.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins
“Less base the fear of death than fear of life.”
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
“A Christian is the highest style of man.”
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
“As soon as we have found the key of life, it opens the gates of death.”
“A death-bed's a detector of the heart.”
Source: Night thoughts on life, death and immortality: With a memoir of the author, a critical view of his writings, and explanatory notes
“Amid my list of blessings infinite, stands this the foremost, "that my heart has bled."”
Source: Young's Night Thoughts. With life and critical dissertation, by the Rev. G. Gilfillan. The text edited by Charles Cowden Clarke
“The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art, Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.”
Source: THE POETICAL WORKS OF THE REV. Dr. E. YOUNG WITH THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.
“We are all born originals - why is it so many of us die copies?”
“The first sure symptom of a mind in health Is rest of heart and pleasure felt at home.”
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
“Born Originals, how comes it to pass that we die Copies?”
Source: The complete works, poetry and prose, of ... Edward Young. Revised [by J. Nichols]. To which is prefixed, a life of the author, by J. Doran
“Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.”
Source: The Works of the Rev. Dr. Edward Young
“A friend is worth all hazards we can run.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins