Edward Young
Edward Young
Edward Youngwas an English poet, best remembered for Night-Thoughts...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth3 July 1683
time thrown
Time elaborately thrown away.
strength spirit disguise
It is great and manly to disdain disguise; it shows our spirit and proves our strength.
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.
dark science sun
How science dwindles, and how volumes swell, How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun!
passion weight judgment
Horace appears in good humor while he censures, and therefore his censure has the more weight, as supposed to proceed from judgment and not from passion.
men advice influence
There is nothing of which men are more liberal than their good advice, be their stock of it ever so small; because it seems to carry in it an intimation of their own influence, importance or worth.
men unjust injustice
Ah, how unjust to Nature and himself Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man!
sweet sleep tired
Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where fortune smiles; the wretched he forsakes.
wise past heaven
'T is greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven.
running reflection soul
A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.
sky goal literature
Too low they build who build below the skies.