“Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform and mortal men lay hold on heaven.”
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Famous Edward Young Quotes
“'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
Source: The poetical works of Edward Young
“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
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
“Heaven wills our happiness, allows our doom.”
Source: Young ́s Night Thoughts
“When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.”
Source: Extracts from Young's Night thoughts, with observations upon them
“One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven.”
Source: The complete poetical works of Edward Young. With life
“Heaven's Sovereign saves all beings but himselfThat hideous sight,-a naked human heart.”
Source: The Complaint; Or, Night Thoughts