Edward Young Quotes
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Edward Young Famous Quotes & Sayings
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How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man! ... Midway from nothing to the Deity!
Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where fortune smiles; the wretched he forsakes.
A Deity believed, is joy begun; A Deity adored, is joy advanced; A Deity beloved, is joy matured. Each branch of piety delight inspires.
Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer. Next day the fatal precedent will plead; thus on, til wisdom is pushed our of life.
This vast and solid earth, that blazing sun, Those skies, thro' which it rolls, must all have end. What then is man? The smallest part of nothing.
But love, like wine, gives a tumultuous bliss, Heighten'd indeed beyond all mortal pleasures; But mingles pangs and madness in the bowl.
Who gives an empire, by the gift defeats All end of giving; and procures contempt Instead of gratitude.
Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world.
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.
The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze.
We push time from us, and we wish him back; * * * * * * Life we think long and short; death seek and shun.
Wouldst thou be famed? have those high acts in view, Brave men would act though scandal would ensue.
Fame is the shade of immortality, And in itself a shadow. Soon as caught, Contemn'd; it shrinks to nothing in the grasp.
If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be much envy in the world.
Each moment has its sickle, emulous Of Time's enormous scythe, whose ample sweep Strikes empires from the root.
Man wants but little, nor that little long; How soon must he resign his very dust, Which frugal nature lent him for an hour!