Edward Young
Edward Young
Edward Youngwas an English poet, best remembered for Night-Thoughts...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth3 July 1683
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.
men good-man guilt
Where, where for shelter shall the guilty fly, When consternation turns the good man pale?
heaven doom
Heaven wills our happiness, allows our doom.
powerful ambition source
Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!
pain pleasure
To frown at pleasure, and to smile in pain.
men he-man blushing
The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
ocean tempest feathers
Ocean into tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly.
angel purpose deeds
Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed: Who does the best his circumstance allows Does well, acts nobly; angels could no more.
pain heaven despair
When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.
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.
men views brave
Wouldst thou be famed? have those high acts in view, Brave men would act though scandal would ensue.
shining prosperity comets
Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How comet-like, it threatens while it shines.
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.
revenge self honor
What is revenge but courage to call in our honor's debts, and wisdom to convert others' self-love into our own protection?