Edward Young: Trending quotes

“Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep!”

“And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.”

“Thoughts shut up want air,
And spoil, like bales unopen’d to the sun.”

“The bell strikes one. We take no note of time
But from its loss.”

“Affliction is a good man's shining time.”

“A foe to God was never true friend to man”

“To frown at pleasure, and to smile in pain.”

“Final Ruin fiercely drives
Her plowshare o'er creation.”

“He weeps! the falling drop puts out the sun; He sighs! the sigh earth's deep foundation shakes. If in His love so terrible, what then His wrath inflamed?”

“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.”

“An undevout astronomer is mad.”

“The booby father craves a booby son,
And by Heaven’s blessing thinks himself undone.”

“On reason build resolve,
that column of true majesty in man.”

“Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites,
Hell threatens.”

“Ah! what is human life?
How, like the dial's tardy-moving shade,
Day after day slides from us unperceiv'd!
The cunning fugitive is swift by stealth;
Too subtle is the movement to be seen;
Yet soon the hour is up—and we are gone.”

“Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.”

“As Love alone can exquisitely bless,
Love only feels the marvellous of pain;
Opens new veins of torture in the soul,
And wakes the nerve where agonies are born.”

“The chamber where the good man meets his fate
Is privileg’d beyond the common walk
Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.”

“There is something in Poetry beyond Prose-reason; there are Mysteries in it not to be explained, but admired.”