Edward Young Quotes

Biography
Type: Poet
Nationality: English
Born: July 3, 1683
Died: April 5, 1765


A Christian is the highest style of man.
Edward Young

A friend is worth all hazards we can run.
Edward Young

A God all mercy is a God unjust.
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A man of pleasure is a man of pains.
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A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.
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All men think all men mortal, but themselves.
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All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.
Edward Young

An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.
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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
Edward Young

By all means use some time to be alone.
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By night an atheist half believes in a God.
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Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.
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How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
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Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
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Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.
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None think the great unhappy, but the great.
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One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.
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Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.
Edward Young