Edward Young Quotes

Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise

They only babble who practise not reflection

On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.

Affliction is the good man's shining scene; prosperity conceals his brightest ray; as night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.

There buds the promise of celestial worth.

Heaven wills our happiness, allows our doom.

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

We wish our names eternally to live; Wild dream! which ne'er had haunted human thought, Had not our natures been eternal too.

Midway from Nothing to the Deity!

Satire recoils whenever charged too high; round your own fame the fatal splinters fly.

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

A foe to God was never true friend to man

Friendship is the wine of life.

By night an atheist half believes in God.

Faith is a bridge across the gulf of death.

Too low they build who build beneath the stars.

None think the great unhappy but the great.

Whate'er th' Almighty's subsequent command His first command is this - "Man love thyself."

The course of nature is the art of God.

None think the great unhappy but the great.

Tomorrow is a satire on today And shows its weakness.

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work and fools reform and mortal men lay hold on heaven.

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Too low they build, who build beneath the stars.

Read nature nature is a friend to truth.