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“Titles are marks of honest men, and wise;
The fool or knave that wears a title lies.”

Edward Young

Satire I, l. 145.
Love of Fame (1725-1728)

“The man that blushes is not quite a brute.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night VII, Line 496.

“Man makes a death which Nature never made.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night IV, Line 15.

“Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours,
And ask them what report they bore to heaven.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night II, Line 376.

“For her own breakfast she'll project a scheme,
Nor take her tea without a strategem.”

Edward Young

Satire VI, l. 187.
Love of Fame (1725-1728)

“And what its worth, ask death-beds; they can tell.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night II, Line 51.

“Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed:
Who does the best his circumstance allows
Does well, acts nobly; angels could no more.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night II, Line 90.

“Life is the desert, life the solitude;
Death joins us to the great majority.”

Edward Young

The Revenge, Act IV, sc. i.

“We see time’s furrows on another’s brow,
And death intrench’d, preparing his assault;
How few themselves in that just mirror see!”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night V, Line 627.

“Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night I, Line 67.

“Truth never was indebted to a lie.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night VIII, Line 587.

“How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun.”

Edward Young

Satire VII, l. 97.
Love of Fame (1725-1728)

“A Christian is the highest style of man.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night IV, Line 788.

“A soul without reflection, like a pile
Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night V, Line 596.

“Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne,
In rayless majesty, now stretches forth
Her leaden scepter o'er a slumbering world.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night I, Line 18.

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

Edward Young

Satire I, l. 89.
Love of Fame (1725-1728)

“Friendship's the wine of life; but friendship new
(Not such was his) is neither strong nor pure.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night II, Line 582.

“Souls made of fire, and children of the sun,
With whom revenge is virtue.”

Edward Young

The Revenge, Act V, sc. ii.

“An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave;
Legions of angels can't confine me there.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night I, Line 89.

“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 Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night I, Line 212.