Edward Young
Edward Young
Edward Youngwas an English poet, best remembered for Night-Thoughts...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth3 July 1683
shadow wish age-and-youth
Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
love woe solitary
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other's heel.
wisdom men years
The man of wisdom is the man of years.
wise madness being-wise
Be wise to-day; 't is madness to defer.
life sleep awful
Creation sleeps! 'T is as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause,- An awful pause! prophetic of her end.
life desire mourn
He mourns the dead who lives as they desire.
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.
church proud way
Some go to Church, proud humbly to repent, And come back much more guilty than they went: One way they look, another way they steer, Pray to the Gods; but would have Mortals hear; And when their sins they set sincerely down, They'll find that their Religion has been one.
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!