“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
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Famous Edward Young Quotes
“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
“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
“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 future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done”
“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
“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
Source: The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins
“The man that blushes is not quite a brute.”
Source: The Complaint; Or, Night Thoughts
“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
“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
“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.”