Edward Young Quotes

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• How blessings brighten as they take their flight.

  Edward Young

  Blessing, Literature, Flight

  Edward Young, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1793). “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”, p.38

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• We are all born originals - why is it so many of us die copies?

  Edward Young

  Inspirational, Being Different, Being Unique

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• In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps; has no harvest from it, but carries the burden of age without the wages of experience; nor knows himself old, but from his infirmities, the parish register, and the contempt of mankind. And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.

  Edward Young

  Age, Action, Life Is

  Edward Young, John Doran, James Nichols (1854). “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”, p.489

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• Too low they build who build below the skies.

  Edward Young

  Sky, Goal, Literature

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• Man makes a death which Nature never made. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.

  Edward Young

  Nature, Men, Made

  Edward Young, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1803). “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”, p.83

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• As soon as we have found the key of life, it opens the gates of death.

  Edward Young

  Life, Keys, Found

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• A foe to God ne'er was true friend to man, Some sinister intent taints all he does.

  Edward Young

  True Friend, Men, Doe

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• Procrastination is the thief of time; year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves the vast concerns of an eternal state. At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; at fifty chides his infamous delay, pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; in all the magnanimity of thought, resolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same.

  Edward Young

  Procrastination, Men, Years

  'The Complaint: Night Thoughts' (1742-5) 'Night 1' l. 417

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• And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?

  Edward Young

  Eternity, Hours, Poor

  Edward Young, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1793). “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”, p.3

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• Day buries day; month, month; and year the year: Our life is but a chain of many deaths.

  Edward Young

  Years, Months, Life Is

  Edward Young (1798). “The Works of Edward Young ...: In Three Volumes. To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author”, p.223

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• Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor ; who lives to fancy, never can be rich.

  Edward Young

  Nature, Fancy, Rich

  Edward Young (1839). “Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality”, p.109

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• Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.

  Edward Young

  Dignity, Ends, Boast

  Edward Young (1813). “The Complaint; Or, Night Thoughts”, p.236

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• By night an atheist half-believes in God.

  Edward Young

  God, Atheist, Believe

  'The Complaint: Night Thoughts' (1742-5) 'Night 5' l. 176

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• Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

  Edward Young

  Birthday, Wise, Fortune Cookie

  The Love of Fame Satire 2, l. 282 (1725 - 1728)

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• Born originals, how comes it to pass that we die copies? That meddling ape imitation, as soon as we come to years of indiscretion, (so let me speak,) snatches the pen, and blots out nature's mark of separation, cancels her kind intention, destroys all mental individuality. The lettered world no longer consists of singulars: it is a medley, a mass; and a hundred books, at bottom, are but one.

  Edward Young

  Book, Years, Individuality

  Edward Young, John Doran (1854). “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”, p.561

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• The man who consecrates his hours by vigorous effort, and an honest aim, at once he draws the sting of life and Death; he walks with nature; and her paths are peace.

  Edward Young

  Death, Peace, Nature

  Edward Young (1823). “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”, p.19

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• At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.

  Edward Young

  Success, Procrastination, Men

  'The Complaint: Night Thoughts' (1742-5) 'Night 1' l. 417

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• Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life!

  Edward Young

  Pain, Leisure, Wheels

  Edward Young (1866). “The complete poetical works of Edward Young. With life”, p.15

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• How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity!

  Edward Young

  Men, August, Deities

  Edward Young (1821). “Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality”, p.9

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• The course of Nature is the art of God

  Edward Young

  Nature, Art, Courses

  Edward Young, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1793). “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”, p.293

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• The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done

  Edward Young

  Dream, Future, Pie

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• Be wise to-day; 't is madness to defer.

  Edward Young

  Wise, Madness, Being Wise

  Edward Young, John Doran, James Nichols (1854). “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”, p.12

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• Sweet instinct leaps; slow reason feebly climbs.

  Edward Young

  Sweet, Reason, Instinct

  Edward Young (1847). “The Complaint: Or, Night Thoughts”, p.109

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• Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven.

  Edward Young

  Morning, Heaven, Dew

  Edward Young (1866). “The complete poetical works of Edward Young. With life”, p.73

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• Men are but men; we did not make ourselves.

  Edward Young

  Men

  Edward Young, Dr. Doran (John) (1854). “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”, p.230

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