Edward Young: Man

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

Edward Young
God

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

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night I, Line 30.

“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.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night II, Line 633.

Life , Fate

“While man is growing, life is in decrease;
And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb.
Our birth is nothing but our death begun.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night V, Line 717.

Life , Death , Birth

“Tis impious in a good man to be sad”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night IV, Line 676.

Sadness

“T is elder Scripture, writ by God's own hand,—
Scripture authentic! uncorrupt by man.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night IX, Line 644.

God

“Ah, how unjust to Nature and himself
Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man!”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night II, Line 112.

Nature

“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.

Death , Nature

“A Christian is the highest style of man.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

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

“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.

Fools

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

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

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

Pain , Pleasure

“The man that makes a character makes foes.”

Edward Young

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

“The man of wisdom is the man of years.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night V, Line 775.

Wisdom

“And all may do what has by man been done.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night VI, Line 606.

“Man wants little, nor that little long.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night IV, Line 118.

“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.