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“There buds the promise of celestial worth.”

Edward Young

The Last Day, book iii; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“By night an atheist half believes a God.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night V, Line 177.

“Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night I, Line 390.

“Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps;
And pyramids are pyramids in vales.
Each man makes his own stature, builds himself.
Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids;
Her monuments shall last when Egypt’s fall.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night VI, Line 309.

“Wishing, of all employments, is the worst.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night IV, Line 71.

“The course of Nature is the art of God.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night IX, Line 1267.

“Heaven’s Sovereign saves all beings but himself
That hideous sight,—a naked human heart.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night III, Line 226.

“A friend is worth all hazards we can run.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night II, Line 571.

“There is something in Poetry beyond Prose-reason; there are Mysteries in it not to be explained, but admired; which render mere Prose-men Infidels to their Divinity.”

Edward Young

London 1759, p. 28 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=h1IJAAAAQAAJ&amp;pg=PA28&amp;dq=mysteries <br class="br">Conjectures on Original Composition (1759)