1683-1765, British Poet, Dramatist
All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.
Edward Young – [Death and Dying]
Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
Edward Young – [Age and Aging]
By night an atheist half believes in God.
Edward Young – [Atheism]
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 – [Example]
Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
Edward Young – [Fear]
Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
Edward Young – [Life and Death]
Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.
Edward Young – [Learning]
None think the great unhappy, but the great.
Edward Young – [Greatness]
Our birth is nothing but our death begun.
Edward Young – [Birth]
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 – [Procrastination]
Some, for renown, on scraps of learning dote, and think they grow immortal as they quote.
Edward Young – [Quotations]
The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
Edward Young – [Blush]
The man that makes a character, makes foes.
Edward Young – [Character]
The purpose firm is equal to the deed.
Edward Young – [Firmness]
Those who build beneath the stars build too low.
Edward Young – [Goals]
To leave a sting within a brother's heart.
Edward Young – [Service]
Virtue alone has majesty in death.
Edward Young – [Death and Dying]