Edward Young
Edward Young
Edward Youngwas an English poet, best remembered for Night-Thoughts...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth3 July 1683
men conscience
The soft whispers of the God in man.
men caught cruelty
Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man.
stars night men
As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.
life fate men
The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.
fall men pyramids
Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself. Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids; Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall.
character men he-man
The man that makes a character, makes foes.
men mind language
Where Nature's end of language is declin'd, And men talk only to conceal the mind.
mistake men bears
Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, "That all men are about to live."
book men library
Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.
men good-man
'T is impious in a good man to be sad.
stars night men
Affliction is the good man's shining scene; prosperity conceals his brightest ray; as night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.
nature men made
Man makes a death which Nature never made. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.
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.