That modest grace subdued my soul; that chastity of look, which seems to hang a veil of purest light o’er all her beauties.
—Edward Young
If wrong our hearts, our heads are right in vain.
—Edward Young
One to destroy, is murder by the law; to murder thousands takes a specious name—war’s glorious art, and gives immortal fame.
—Edward Young
Topics: Murder
The future… seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.
—Edward Young
Topics: Adversity, Future
All evils natural, are moral goods; all discipline, indulgence on the whole.
—Edward Young
Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
—Edward Young
Topics: Courage, Procrastination, Virtue, The Future, Tomorrow
Faith is not only a means of obeying, but a principal act of obedience; not only an altar on which to sacrifice, but a sacrifice itself, and perhaps, of all, the greatest. It is a submission of our understandings; an oblation of our idolized reason to God, which he requires so indispensably, that our whole will and affections, though seemingly a larger sacrifice, will not, without it, be received at his hands.
—Edward Young
Topics: Faith