All evils natural, are moral goods; all discipline, indulgence on the whole.
—Edward Young
Topics: Evils
Horace appears in good humor while he censures, and therefore his censure has the more weight, as supposed to proceed from judgment and not from passion.
—Edward Young
Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
—Edward Young
Who fails to grieve when just occasion calls, or grieves too much, deserves not to be blest: inhuman, or effeminate, his heart.
—Edward Young
Topics: Grief
Those who build beneath the stars build too low.
—Edward Young
Topics: Goals, Stars
The man that makes a character, makes foes.
—Edward Young
Topics: Character
What we ardently wish we soon believe.
—Edward Young
Topics: Wishes
What tender force, what dignity divine, what virtue consecrating every feature; around that neck what dross are gold and pearl!
—Edward Young
Topics: Beauty
Virtue alone outbuilds the pyramids; her monument shall last when Egypts fall.
—Edward Young
Where is the dust that has not been alive?—The spade and the plough disturb our ancestors.—From human mold we reap our daily bread.
—Edward Young
Topics: Earth
Know that without star or angel for their guide, they who worship God shall find him.—Humble love, and not proud reason keeps the door of heaven.—Love finds admission where proud science fails.
—Edward Young
Topics: Religion, Love
The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
—Edward Young
Topics: Shame
Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
—Edward Young
Topics: Fear
Wishing, of all employments, is the worst.
—Edward Young
Topics: Hope
Praise, more divine than prayer; prayer points our ready path to heaven; praise is already there.
—Edward Young
Topics: Praise
Like our shadows, Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
—Edward Young
Topics: Wishes, One liners
Man, know thyself; all wisdom centres there.
—Edward Young
Topics: Self-Knowledge
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
—Edward Young
Topics: Example
Man wants but little, nor that little long.—How soon must he resign his very dust, which frugal nature lent him for an hour.
—Edward Young
A man of pleasure is a man of pains.
—Edward Young
Topics: Pleasure, Pain
Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
—Edward Young
Topics: Death, Fools
Oh, how portentous is prosperity! how, comet-like, it threatens while it shines.
—Edward Young
Topics: Prosperity
Wishing—the constant hectic of the fool.
—Edward Young
Topics: Wishes
For her own breakfast she ‘ll project a scheme,Nor take her tea without a stratagem.
—Edward Young
Topics: Women
Some, for renown, on scraps of learning dote, and think they grow immortal as they quote.
—Edward Young
Topics: Quotations
We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
—Edward Young
Topics: Pride
Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread.
—Edward Young
Cast an eye on the gay and fashionable world, and what see we for the most part, but a set of querulous, emaciated, fluttering fantastical beings, worn out in the keen pursuit of pleasure—creatures that know, own, condemn, deplore, and yet pursue their own infelicity? The decayed monuments of error! The thin remains of what is called delight!
—Edward Young
Topics: Fashion
Why all this toil for the triumphs of an hour?
—Edward Young
Topics: Life
Heaven’s sovereign saves all beings but himself that hideous sight, a naked human heart.
—Edward Young
Topics: Heart
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