Edward Young
Edward Young
Edward Youngwas an English poet, best remembered for Night-Thoughts...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth3 July 1683
science deities evolution
Midway from Nothing to the Deity!
age action life-is
In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps; has no harvest from it, but carries the burden of age without the wages of experience; nor knows himself old, but from his infirmities, the parish register, and the contempt of mankind. And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.
dignity ends boast
Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.
life sympathy death
Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
dream pie long
The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done
procrastination men fool
At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
love long giving
To know the world, not love her, is thy point; She gives but little, nor that little, long.
love woe solitary
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other's heel.
instinct reason slow swift
Reason is progressive; instinct is complete; swift instinct leaps; slow reason feebly climbs.
bed kingdoms luxury soft
On the soft bed of luxury most kingdoms have expired.
due example examples favor inspection intimidate judgment lessen prejudice prevent
Illustrious examples engross, prejudice, and intimidate. They engross our attention, and so prevent a due inspection of ourselves; they prejudice our judgment in favor of their abilities, and so lessen the sense of our own; and they intimidate us with the
heart home mind
The first sure symptom of a mind in health Is rest of heart and pleasure felt at home.
breakfast nor project stratagem tea
For her own breakfast she'll project a scheme, Nor take her tea without a stratagem
years months life-is
Day buries day; month, month; and year the year: Our life is but a chain of many deaths.