Edward Young
Edward Young
Edward Youngwas an English poet, best remembered for Night-Thoughts...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth3 July 1683
prayer heaven ardent
Prayer ardent opens heaven.
daughter night mad
It calls Devotion! genuine growth of night! Devotion! Daughter of Astronomy! An undevout astronomer is mad!
beautiful sweet gay
Beautiful as sweet, And young as beautiful, and soft as young, And gay as soft, and innocent as gay!
gold pearls necks
What tender force, what dignity divine, what virtue consecrating every feature; around that neck what dross are gold and pearl!
dignity ends boast
Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.
prayer heaven path
Praise, more divine than prayer; prayer points our ready path to heaven; praise is already there.
pain leisure wheels
Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life!
reflection practise
They only babble who practise not reflection
learning thinking training
Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.
disappointment age youth
In youth, what disappointments of our own making: in age, what disappointments from the nature of things.
ocean thoughtful silence
Age should fly concourse, cover in retreat defects of judgment, and the will subdue; walk thoughtful on the silent, solemn shore of that vast ocean it must sail so soon.
ambition sky lows
They build too low who build beneath the skies.
motivation men may
And all may do what has by man been done.
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.