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The first sure symptom of a mind in health Is rest of heart and pleasure felt at home. -- Edward Young
This is the bud of being, the dim dawn, The twilight of our day, the vestibule; Life's theatre as yet is shut, and death, Strong death, alone can heave the massy bar, This gross impediment of clay remove, And make us embryos of existence free. -- Edward Young
The melancholy ghosts of dead renown, Whispering faint echoes of the world's applause. -- Edward Young
The soul of man was made to walk the skies. -- Edward Young
Narcissus is the glory of his race: For who does nothing with a better grace?. -- Edward Young
We nothing know, but what is marvellous; Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe. -- Edward Young
The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze. -- Edward Young
Ocean into tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly. -- Edward Young
Time destroyed Is suicide, where more than blood is spilt. -- Edward Young
Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How comet-like, it threatens while it shines. -- Edward Young
Unlearned men of books assume the care,
As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair. -- Edward Young
When men once reach their autumn, sickly joys fall off apace, as yellow leaves from trees -- Edward Young
Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man. -- Edward Young
As in smooth oil the razor best is whet, So wit is by politeness sharpest set; Their want of edge from their offence is seen, Both pain us least when exquisitely keen. -- Edward Young
A man I knew who lived upon a smile, And well it fed him; he look'd plump and fair, While rankest venom foam'd through every vein. -- Edward Young
A God all mercy is a God unjust. -- Edward Young
[The] public path of life Is dirty. -- Edward Young
An undevout astronomer is mad. -- Edward Young
Who knows if Shakespeare might not have thought less if he had read more? -- Edward Young
This vast and solid earth, that blazing sun, Those skies, thro' which it rolls, must all have end. What then is man? The smallest part of nothing. -- Edward Young
Praise, more divine than prayer; prayer points our ready path to heaven; praise is already there. -- Edward Young
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. -- Edward Young
What tender force, what dignity divine, what virtue consecrating every feature; around that neck what dross are gold and pearl! -- Edward Young
Some go to Church, proud humbly to repent, And come back much more guilty than they went: One way they look, another way they steer, Pray to the Gods; but would have Mortals hear; And when their sins they set sincerely down, They'll find that their Religion has been one. -- Edward Young
If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be much envy in the world. -- Edward Young
Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor ; who lives to fancy, never can be rich. -- Edward Young
Friendship is the wine of life. -- Edward Young
Affliction is a good man's shining time. -- Edward Young
The course of Nature is the art of God. -- Edward Young
Day buries day; month, month; and year the year: Our life is but a chain of many deaths. -- Edward Young
A man of pleasure is a man of pains. -- Edward Young
To know the world, not love her, is thy point; She gives but little, nor that little, long. -- Edward Young
How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man! ... Midway from nothing to the Deity! -- Edward Young
When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair. -- Edward Young
Old men love novelties; the last arriv'd Still pleases best; the youngest steals their smiles. -- Edward Young
Tis immortality, 'tis that alone, Amid life's pains, abasements, emptiness, The soul can comfort, elevate, and fill. That only, and that amply this performs. -- Edward Young
What ardently we wish, we soon believe. -- Edward Young
But fate ordains that dearest friends must part. -- Edward Young
Man maketh a death which Nature never made. -- Edward Young
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. -- Edward Young
Man makes a death which Nature never made. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one. -- Edward Young
Men should press forward, in fame's glorious chase; Nobles look backward, and so lose the race. -- Edward Young
A death-bed's a detector of the heart. -- Edward Young
'T is impious in a good man to be sad. -- Edward Young
A friend is worth all hazards we can run. -- Edward Young
What is revenge but courage to call in our honor's debts, and wisdom to convert others' self-love into our own protection? -- Edward Young
The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art, Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart. -- Edward Young
The house of laughter makes a house of woe. -- Edward Young
Sense is our helmet, wit is but the plume; The plume exposes, 'tis our helmet saves. Sense is the diamond, weighty, solid, sound; When cut by wit, it casts a brighter beam; Yet, wit apart, it is a diamond still. -- Edward Young
The spirit walks of every day deceased. -- Edward Young
We push time from us, and we wish him back; * * * * * * Life we think long and short; death seek and shun. -- Edward Young
The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away. -- Edward Young
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired. -- Edward Young
Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign. -- Edward Young
As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man. -- Edward Young
Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread. -- Edward Young
Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . Less base the fear of death than fear of life. O Britain! infamous for suicide. -- Edward Young
The bell strikes One. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours. -- Edward Young
Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene -- Edward Young
Let no man trust the first false step of guilt; it hangs upon a precipice, whose steep descent in last perdition ends. -- Edward Young
Each moment has its sickle, emulous Of Time's enormous scythe, whose ample sweep Strikes empires from the root. -- Edward Young
Virtue alone has majesty in death. -- Edward Young
Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer. Next day the fatal precedent will plead; thus on, til wisdom is pushed our of life. -- Edward Young
But love, like wine, gives a tumultuous bliss, Heighten'd indeed beyond all mortal pleasures; But mingles pangs and madness in the bowl. -- Edward Young
A Deity believed, is joy begun; A Deity adored, is joy advanced; A Deity beloved, is joy matured. Each branch of piety delight inspires. -- Edward Young
A tardy vengeance shares the tyrant's guilt. -- Edward Young
Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire. -- Edward Young
At thirty a man suspects himself a fool;
Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan;
At fifty chides his infamous delay,
Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve;
In all the magnanimity of thought
Resolves; and re-resolves; then dies the same. -- Edward Young
Men before you have quit smoking - you can too! -- Edward Young
Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile. -- Edward Young
Men are but men; we did not make ourselves. -- Edward Young
There buds the promise of celestial worth. -- Edward Young
At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan. -- Edward Young
Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy. -- Edward Young
Be wise to-day; 't is madness to defer. -- Edward Young
Man wants little, nor that little long. -- Edward Young
Age should fly concourse, cover in retreat defects of judgment, and the will subdue; walk thoughtful on the silent, solemn shore of that vast ocean it must sail so soon. -- Edward Young
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. -- Edward Young
A dearth of words a woman need not fear; But 'tis a task indeed to learn to hear: In that the skill of conversation lies; That shows and makes you both polite and wise. -- Edward Young
There is nothing of which men are more liberal than their good advice, be their stock of it ever so small; because it seems to carry in it an intimation of their own influence, importance or worth. -- Edward Young
The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety. -- Edward Young
Think naught a trifle, though it small appear:
Small sands the mountain, moments make the year,
And trifles life.
-- Edward Young
The blood will follow where the knife is driven, The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear. -- Edward Young
Life's cares are comforts; such by Heav'n design'd; He that hath none must make them, or be wretched. -- Edward Young
I've known my lady (for she loves a tune) For fevers take an opera in June: And, though perhaps you'll think the practice bold, A midnight park is sov'reign for a cold. -- Edward Young
Blest leisure is our curse; like that of Cain, It, makes us wander, wander earth around, To fly that tyrant Thought. As Atlas groan'd The world beneath, we groan beneath an hour. -- Edward Young
Final Ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare o'er creation. -- Edward Young
None think the great unhappy, but the great. -- Edward Young
Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, A soldier should be modest as a maid. -- Edward Young
In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom ... And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing. -- Edward Young
By night an atheist half believes in God. -- Edward Young
Truth never was indebted to a lie. -- Edward Young
A dedication is a wooden leg. -- Edward Young
The person of wisdom is the person of years. -- Edward Young
Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines. -- Edward Young
Youth is not rich in time; it may be poor; Part with it as with money, sparing; pay No moment but in purchase of its worth, And what it's worth, ask death-beds; they can tell. -- Edward Young
The booby father craves a booby son, And by Heaven's blessing thinks himself undone. -- Edward Young
Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise. -- Edward Young
'T is greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven. -- Edward Young
We cry for mercy to the next amusement, The next amusement mortgages our fields -- Edward Young
He mourns the dead who lives as they desire. -- Edward Young
Heaven wills our happiness, allows our doom. -- Edward Young
Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun. -- 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
Nothing but what astonishes is true. -- Edward Young
Who can take Death's portrait? The tyrant never sat. -- Edward Young
The purpose firm is equal to the deed. -- Edward Young
Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life! -- Edward Young
He sins against this life, who slights the next. -- Edward Young
Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, "That all men are about to live." -- Edward Young
O let me be undone the common way, And have the common comfort to be pity'd, And not be ruin'd in the mask of bliss, And so be envy'd, and be wretched too! -- Edward Young
Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven. -- Edward Young
It is great and manly to disdain disguise; it shows our spirit and proves our strength. -- Edward Young
A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs. -- Edward Young
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
Where, where for shelter shall the guilty fly, When consternation turns the good man pale? -- Edward Young
Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness. -- Edward Young
Beautiful as sweet, And young as beautiful, and soft as young, And gay as soft, and innocent as gay! -- Edward Young
Give me, indulgent gods with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene, No splendid poverty, no smiling care, No well-bred hate, or servile grandeur, there. -- Edward Young
Mine is the night, with all her stars. -- Edward Young
Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. -- Edward Young
Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed. -- Edward Young
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other's heel. -- Edward Young
Amid my list of blessings infinite, stands this the foremost, "that my heart has bled." -- Edward Young
Wouldst thou be famed? have those high acts in view, Brave men would act though scandal would ensue. -- Edward Young
Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die. -- Edward Young
Some wits, too, like oracles, deal in ambiguities, but not with equal success; for though ambiguities are the first excellence of an imposter, they are the last of a wit. -- Edward Young
Ah! what is human life? How, like the dial's tardy-moving shade, Day after day slides from us unperceiv'd! The cunning fugitive is swift by stealth; Too subtle is the movement to be seen; Yet soon the hour is up
and we are gone. -- Edward Young
An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there. -- Edward Young
He that's ungrateful has no guilt but one; All other crimes may pass for virtues in him. -- Edward Young
The man that makes a character, makes foes. -- Edward Young
Insatiate archer! could not one suffice? Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn. -- Edward Young
Wonder is involuntary praise. -- Edward Young
A foe to God was never true friend to man -- Edward Young
Less base the fear of death than fear of life. -- Edward Young
Titles are marks of honest men, and wise; The fool or knave that wears a title lies. -- Edward Young
Who gives an empire, by the gift defeats All end of giving; and procures contempt Instead of gratitude. -- Edward Young
A prince indebted is a fortune made. -- Edward Young
Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where fortune smiles; the wretched he forsakes. -- Edward Young
Time elaborately thrown away. -- Edward Young
A strange alternative * * *Must women have a doctor or a dance? -- Edward Young
The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought. -- Edward Young
Fond man! the vision of a moment made! Dream of a dream! and shadow of a shade! -- Edward Young
Pity swells the tide of love. -- Edward Young
Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour? What tho' we wade in Wealth, or soar in Fame? Earth's highest station ends in 'Here he lies;' and 'Dust to dust' concludes the noblest songs. -- Edward Young
A foe to God ne'er was true friend to man, Some sinister intent taints all he does. -- Edward Young
All men think that all men are mortal but themselves. -- Edward Young
In chambers deep, Where waters sleep, What unknown treasures pave the floor. -- Edward Young
Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new ... is neither strong nor pure. -- Edward Young
Ambition! powerful source of good and ill! -- Edward Young
The soft whispers of the God in man. -- Edward Young
Ah, how unjust to Nature and himself Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man! -- Edward Young
Live now; be damn'd hereafter. -- Edward Young
Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, /And think they grow immortal as they quote. -- Edward Young
How blessings brighten as they take their flight. -- Edward Young
I had looked for happiness in fast living, but it was not there. I tried to find it in money, but it was not there either. -- Edward Young
Fame is the shade of immortality, And in itself a shadow. Soon as caught, Contemn'd; it shrinks to nothing in the grasp. -- Edward Young
The man that blushes is not quite a brute. -- Edward Young
We wish our names eternally to live; Wild dream! which ne'er had haunted human thought, Had not our natures been eternal too. -- Edward Young
In youth, what disappointments of our own making: in age, what disappointments from the nature of things. -- Edward Young
Take God from nature, nothing great is left. -- Edward Young
To frown at pleasure, and to smile in pain. -- Edward Young
We see time's furrows on another's brow, And death intrench'd, preparing his assault; How few themselves in that just mirror see! -- Edward Young
Where Nature's end of language is declin'd, And men talk only to conceal the mind. -- Edward Young
As soon as we have found the key of life, it opens the gates of death. -- Edward Young
Too low they build, who build beneath the stars. -- Edward Young
Creation sleeps! 'T is as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause,- An awful pause! prophetic of her end. -- Edward Young
Satire recoils whenever charged too high; round your own fame the fatal splinters fly. -- Edward Young
Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority. -- Edward Young
Friendship's the wine of life. -- Edward Young
How science dwindles, and how volumes swell,
How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun! -- Edward Young
Who combats with a brother, wounds himself. -- Edward Young
Read nature; nature is a friend to truth. -- Edward Young
Nothing in Nature, much less conscious being, Was e'er created solely for itself. -- Edward Young
A Christian is the highest style of man. -- Edward Young
The man of wisdom is the man of years. -- Edward Young
The qualities all in a bee that we meet, In an epigram never should fail; The body should always be little and sweet, And a sting should be felt in its tail. -- Edward Young
However smothered under former negligence, or scattered through the dull, dark mass of common thoughts - let thy genius rise as the sun from chaos. -- Edward Young
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
Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue. -- Edward Young
What is a miracle?
'Tis a reproach, 'Tis an implicit satire on mankind; And while it satisfies, it censures too. -- Edward Young
Angels are men of a superior kind; Angels are men in lighter habit clad. -- Edward Young
What most we wish, with ease we fancy near. -- Edward Young
They build too low who build beneath the skies. -- Edward Young
Wishing of all employments is the worst. -- Edward Young
A land of levity is a land of guilt. -- Edward Young
Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live forever? Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all? This is a miracle; and that no more. -- Edward Young
And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour? -- Edward Young
For her own breakfast she'll project a scheme,
Nor take her tea without a strategem. -- Edward Young
Body and soul, like peevish man and wife, United jar, and yet are loth to part. -- Edward Young
We bleed, we tremble; we forget, we smile - The mind turns fool, before the cheek is dry -- Edward Young
It calls Devotion! genuine growth of night! Devotion! Daughter of Astronomy! An undevout astronomer is mad! -- Edward Young
We are all born originals - why is it so many of us die copies? -- Edward Young
And friend received with thumps upon the back. -- Edward Young
Wise it is to comprehend the whole. -- Edward Young
Distinguisht Link in Being's endless Chain!
Midway from Nothing to the Deity! -- Edward Young
We are not all great because we are inspired, but we feel great because we are. -- Edward Young
Death! great proprietor of all! 'tis thine To tread out empire, and to quench the stars. -- Edward Young
Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ. -- Edward Young
The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss. -- Edward Young
Heaven's Sovereign saves all beings but himselfThat hideous sight,-a naked human heart. -- Edward Young
Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform. -- Edward Young
Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed: Who does the best his circumstance allows Does well, acts nobly; angels could no more. -- Edward Young
They only babble who practise not reflection. -- Edward Young
Joys season'd high, and tasting strong of guilt. -- Edward Young
All men think all men mortal, but themselves. -- Edward Young
Midway from Nothing to the Deity! -- Edward Young
Who, for the poor renown of being smart, Would leave a sting within a brother's heart? -- Edward Young
been lowered slightly because -- Edward Young
With fame, in just proportion, envy grows. -- Edward Young
O! lost to virtue, lost to manly thought, Lost to the noble sallies of the soul! Who think it solitude to be alone. -- Edward Young
A God alone can comprehend a God. -- Edward Young
They most the world enjoy who least admire. -- Edward Young
By all means use some time to be alone. -- Edward Young
And all may do what has by man been done. -- Edward Young
Too low they build who build below the skies. -- Edward Young
One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven. -- Edward Young
