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
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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
“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
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
“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
“Ah, how unjust to Nature and himself Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man!”
Source: Night Thoughts, etc
“Man makes a death which Nature never made. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.”
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
“Nothing in Nature, much less conscious being, Was e'er created solely for itself.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Rev. Dr. E. Young: With the Life of the Author