Edward Young: Trending quotes

Edward Young trending quotes. Read the latest quotes in collection
Edward Young: 220 quotes3 likes

“Their feet through faithless leather met the dirt,
And oftener chang'd their principles than shirt.”

Edward Young

To Mr. Pope, epistle I, l. 277.

“A God all mercy is a God unjust.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night IV, Line 233.

“When the Law shows her teeth, but dares not bite.”

Edward Young

Satire I, l. 17.
Love of Fame (1725-1728)

“The spirit walks of every day deceased.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night II, Line 180.

“Procrastination is the thief of time.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night I, Line 393.

“At thirty, man suspects himself a fool;
Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan;
At fifty chides his infamous delay,
Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve;
In all the magnanimity of thought
Resolves, and re-resolves; then dies the same.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night I, Line 417.

“And friend received with thumps upon the back.”

Edward Young

Universal Passion; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“To waft a feather or to drown a fly.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night I, Line 154.

“A man of pleasure is a man of pains.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night VIII, Line 793.

“Too low they build who build beneath the stars.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 206.
Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night VIII

“Like our shadows,
Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night V, Line 661.

“What ardently we wish we soon believe.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night VII, Line 1311.

“They that on glorious ancestors enlarge,
Produce their debt instead of their discharge.”

Edward Young

Satire I, l. 147.
Love of Fame (1725-1728)

“In youth, what disappointments of our own making: in age, what disappointments from the nature of things.”

Edward Young

A Vindication of Providence; or, A True Estimate of Human Life (1728).

“Life's cares are comforts; such by Heav'n design'd;
He that hath none must make them, or be wretched.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night II, Line 160.

“Think naught a trifle, though it small appear;
Small sands the mountain, moments make the year,
And trifles life.”

Edward Young

Satire VI, l. 208.
Love of Fame (1725-1728)

“How blessings brighten as they take their flight!”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night II, Line 602.

“The man that makes a character makes foes.”

Edward Young

To Mr. Pope, epistle I, l. 28 (1730).

“Accept a miracle instead of wit,—
See two dull lines with Stanhope's pencil writ.”

Edward Young

Lines written with the Diamond Pencil of Lord Chesterfield; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“They only babble who practise not reflection.”

Edward Young

From Richard Brinsley Sheridan's Pizarro, Act I, sc. i.
Misattributed