A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.
– Edward Young
All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.
– Edward Young
Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!
– Edward Young
Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
– Edward Young
By all means use some time to be alone.
– Edward Young
By night an atheist half believes in God.
– Edward Young
Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.
– Edward Young
How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
– Edward Young
Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
– Edward Young
Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
– Edward Young
Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
– Edward Young
Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.
– Edward Young
None think the great unhappy, but the great.
– Edward Young
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.
– Edward Young
Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise.
– Edward Young
The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.
– Edward Young
The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
– Edward Young
The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
– Edward Young
The man that makes a character, makes foes.
– Edward Young
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.
– Edward Young
They only babble who practise not reflection.
– Edward Young
Those who build beneath the stars build too low.
– Edward Young
To leave a sting within a brother's heart.
– Edward Young
Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.
– Edward Young
Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform.
– Edward Young
Truth never was indebted to a lie.
– Edward Young
Virtue alone has majesty in death.
– Edward Young
Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed:Who does the best his circumstance allowsDoes well, acts nobly; angels could no more.
– Edward Young
Wishing, of all employments, is the worst.
– Edward Young
Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites,Hell threatens.
– Edward Young
At thirty, man suspects himself a fool;Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
– Edward Young
The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art,Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.
– Edward Young
Amid my list of blessings infinite, Stands this the foremost, 'That my heart has bled.'
– Edward Young
For her own breakfast she 'll project a scheme,Nor take her tea without a stratagem.
– Edward Young
Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.
– Edward Young
The weak have remedies, the wise have joys superior wisdom is superior bliss.
– Edward Young
The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.
– Edward Young
The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.
– Edward Young
Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.