Edward Young
Edward Young
Edward Youngwas an English poet, best remembered for Night-Thoughts...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth3 July 1683
wise procrastination next-day
Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer. Next day the fatal precedent will plead; thus on, til wisdom is pushed our of life.
procrastination men heaven
Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
procrastination men years
Procrastination is the thief of time; year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves the vast concerns of an eternal state. 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.
honesty men life-and-death
The man who consecrates his hours by vigorous effort, and an honest aim, at once he draws the sting of life and Death; he walks with nature; and her paths are peace.
men environment made
Man maketh a death which Nature never made.
wise joy bliss
The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.
wonder praise involuntary
Wonder is involuntary praise.
wise honesty lying
Titles are marks of honest men, and wise; The fool or knave that wears a title lies.
hate heart giving
Give me, indulgent gods with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene, No splendid poverty, no smiling care, No well-bred hate, or servile grandeur, there.
thinking practice june
I've known my lady (for she loves a tune) For fevers take an opera in June: And, though perhaps you'll think the practice bold, A midnight park is sov'reign for a cold.
dream names wish
We wish our names eternally to live; Wild dream! which ne'er had haunted human thought, Had not our natures been eternal too.
land guilt levity
A land of levity is a land of guilt.
men guilt lasts
Let no man trust the first false step of guilt; it hangs upon a precipice, whose steep descent in last perdition ends.
hope two miracle
Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ.