Edward Young
Edward Young
Edward Youngwas an English poet, best remembered for Night-Thoughts...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth3 July 1683
years age persons
The person of wisdom is the person of years.
laughter house woe
The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
real real-friends wine
Friendship's the wine of life.
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.
procrastination men heaven
Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
running hazards
A friend is worth all hazards we can run.
unjust mercy
A God all mercy is a God unjust.
pain men pleasure
A man of pleasure is a man of pains.
next sin this-life
He sins against this life, who slights the next.
men may fool
Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
deeds purpose firmness
The purpose firm is equal to the deed
dream pie long
The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done
art courses
The course of Nature is the art of God
truth lying indebted
Truth never was indebted to a lie