Edward Young Quotes - Page 6

Quotes about:

• As in smooth oil the razor best is whet, So wit is by politeness sharpest set; Their want of edge from their offence is seen, Both pain us least when exquisitely keen.

  Edward Young

  Pain, Oil, Razors

  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.358

  4 Copy quote

• Body and soul, like peevish man and wife, United jar, and yet are loth to part.

  Edward Young

  Men, Wife, Soul

  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.25

  4 Copy quote

• Blest leisure is our curse; like that of Cain, It, makes us wander, wander earth around, To fly that tyrant Thought. As Atlas groan'd The world beneath, we groan beneath an hour.

  Edward Young

  Tyrants, Leisure, Atlas

  Edward Young (1821). “Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality”, p.25

  4 Copy quote

• Heaven's Sovereign saves all beings but himselfThat hideous sight,-a naked human heart.

  Edward Young

  Heart, Sight, Heaven

  Edward Young (1813). “The Complaint; Or, Night Thoughts”, p.51

  4 Copy quote

• Who gives an empire, by the gift defeats All end of giving; and procures contempt Instead of gratitude.

  Edward Young

  Gratitude, Giving, Empires

  Edward Young (1811). “The Works of the Rev. Dr. Edward Young”, p.80

  4 Copy quote

• This is the bud of being, the dim dawn, The twilight of our day, the vestibule; Life's theatre as yet is shut, and death, Strong death, alone can heave the massy bar, This gross impediment of clay remove, And make us embryos of existence free.

  Edward Young

  Strong, Twilight, Theatre

  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.4

  4 Copy quote

• A prince indebted is a fortune made.

  Edward Young

  Made, Fortune, Indebted

  Edward Young (1756). “The Brothers: A Tragedy”, p.6

  6 Copy quote

• Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.

  Edward Young

  Learning, Thinking, Training

  Edward Young (1799). “The poetical works of ... E. Young. With the life of the author. Cooke's ed”, p.37

  9 Copy quote

• Not all the pride of beauty; Those eyes, that tell us what the sun is made of; Those lips, whose touch is to be bought with life; Those hills of driven snow, which seen are felt: All these possessed are nought, but as they are The proof, the substance of an inward passion, And the rich plunder of a taken heart.

  Edward Young

  Taken, Eye, Passion

  John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins (1836). “The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins”, p.188

  4 Copy quote

• The blood will follow where the knife is driven, The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear.

  Edward Young

  Blood, Knives, Tears

  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.243

  4 Copy quote

• Old men love novelties; the last arriv'd Still pleases best; the youngest steals their smiles.

  Edward Young

  Men, Novelty, Lasts

  Edward Young (1802). “The Works of the Author of the Night-thoughts”, p.112

  4 Copy quote

• Who can take Death's portrait? The tyrant never sat.

  Edward Young

  Death, Tyrants, Portraits

  4 Copy quote

• A Deity believed, is joy begun; A Deity adored, is joy advanced; A Deity beloved, is joy matured. Each branch of piety delight inspires.

  Edward Young

  God, Joy, Inspire

  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.168

  4 Copy quote

• Tis immortality, 'tis that alone, Amid life's pains, abasements, emptiness, The soul can comfort, elevate, and fill. That only, and that amply this performs.

  Edward Young

  Pain, Soul, Comfort

  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.172

  4 Copy quote

• Joys season'd high, and tasting strong of guilt.

  Edward Young

  Strong, Joy, Guilt

  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.234

  4 Copy quote

• Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How comet-like, it threatens while it shines.

  Edward Young

  Shining, Prosperity, Comets

  Edward Young (1822). “The Complaint; Or, Night-thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality ... To which is Added, A Paraphrase on Part of the Book of Job”, p.115

  4 Copy quote

• When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.

  Edward Young

  Pain, Heaven, Despair

  William Danby, Edward Young (1832). “Extracts from Young's Night thoughts, with observations upon them”, p.102

  4 Copy quote

• What tender force, what dignity divine, what virtue consecrating every feature; around that neck what dross are gold and pearl!

  Edward Young

  Gold, Pearls, Necks

  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.146

  4 Copy quote

• Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.

  Edward Young

  Men, May, Fool

  Edward Young (1806). “Night Thoughts, on Life, Death, and Immortality ... With the life of the author. [With plates, including a portrait.]”, p.80

  6 Copy quote

• Age should fly concourse, cover in retreat defects of judgment, and the will subdue; walk thoughtful on the silent, solemn shore of that vast ocean it must sail so soon.

  Edward Young

  Ocean, Thoughtful, Silence

  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.82

  4 Copy quote

• Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise

  Edward Young

  Despise, Thyself

  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.131

  4 Copy quote

• The person of wisdom is the person of years.

  Edward Young

  Years, Age, Persons

  4 Copy quote

• Insatiate archer! could not one suffice? Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn.

  Edward Young

  Peace, Archer, Moon

  Edward Young, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Edward Young”, p.29

  4 Copy quote

• Unlearned men of books assume the care,
  As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.

  Edward Young

  Book, Men, Library

  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.357

  7 Copy quote

• One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.

  Edward Young

  Art, Fear, War

  The Love of Fame Satire 7, l. 55 (1725 - 1728) See Porteus 1; Jean Rostand 1

  7 Copy quote

Page 6 of 9

First

← Prev

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin