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Edward Young [1683-1765] English
Rank: 101
Poet


Edward Young was an English poet, best remembered for Night-Thoughts.

Learning, Nature, Wisdom, Alone, Art, Death, Friendship, Future, God, Inspirational, Men, Poetry, Time, Trust, Truth



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Procrastination is the thief of time. Time
101
The course of Nature is the art of God. Art, God, Nature
102
Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure. Friendship
103
Read nature; nature is a friend to truth. Nature, Truth
104
The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought. Wisdom
105
By all means use some time to be alone. Alone
106
How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
107
A Christian is the highest style of man.
108
Too low they build, who build beneath the stars. Inspirational
109
The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety. Trust
110
Wise it is to comprehend the whole.
111
Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform.
112
Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die. Men
113
The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done. Future
114
Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire. Death
115
Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.
116
The purpose firm is equal to the deed.
117
Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote. Learning
118
An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.
119
All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.
120
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired. Poetry
121
A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.
122
The man that makes a character, makes foes.
123
A friend is worth all hazards we can run.
124
The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
125
Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise.
126
Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy. Learning
201
Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
202
By night an atheist half believes in a God.
203
The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss. Wisdom
204
Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live forever? Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all? This is a miracle; and that no more.
205
They only babble who practise not reflection.
206
The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
207
Wishing of all employments is the worst.
208
Truth never was indebted to a lie.
209
A man of pleasure is a man of pains.
210
Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
211
Virtue alone has majesty in death.
212
None think the great unhappy, but the great.
213
A God all mercy is a God unjust.
214
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.
215
Wonder is involuntary praise.
216
Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
217
All men think all men mortal, but themselves.
218

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