Edward Young
Edward Young
Edward Youngwas an English poet, best remembered for Night-Thoughts...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth3 July 1683
tyrants guilt vengeance
A tardy vengeance shares the tyrant's guilt.
strong joy guilt
Joys season'd high, and tasting strong of guilt.
ungrateful guilt may
He that's ungrateful has no guilt but one; All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.
land guilt levity
A land of levity is a land of guilt.
men guilt lasts
Let no man trust the first false step of guilt; it hangs upon a precipice, whose steep descent in last perdition ends.
men good-man guilt
Where, where for shelter shall the guilty fly, When consternation turns the good man pale?
bed kingdoms luxury soft
On the soft bed of luxury most kingdoms have expired.
birth death
Our birth is nothing but our death begun.
instinct reason slow swift
Reason is progressive; instinct is complete; swift instinct leaps; slow reason feebly climbs.
man nor wants
Man wants but little; nor that little, long
english-poet less seems thou
Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live forever? Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all? This is a miracle; and that no more.
english-poet idlers
Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform.
beneath
Too low they build, who build beneath the stars.
heart sting within
To ""leave a sting within a brother's heart