Edward Young > Quotes

“Friendship is the wine of life. ”
― Edward Young

“Affliction is a good man's shining time.”
― Edward Young

“We are all born originals - why is it so many of us die copies?”
― Edward Young

“A foe to God was never true friend to man”
― 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, Night Thoughts: Or, the Complaint and the Consolation

“Too low they build, who build beneath the stars.”
― 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

“The first sure symptom of a mind in health Is rest of heart and pleasure felt at home.”
― Edward Young

“By all means use some time to be alone.”
― Edward Young

“Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, /And think they grow immortal as they quote.”
― Edward Young

“Suara hati adalah bisikan lembut Tuhan kepada manusia.”
― Edward Young

“For her own breakfast she'll project a scheme,
Nor take her tea without a strategem.”
― Edward Young, Poetical Works of the Rev. Dr. Edward Young

“Think naught a trifle, though it small appear:
Small sands the mountain, moments make the year,
And trifles life.
”
― Edward Young

“Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.”
― Edward Young

“Independence existed for individual before liberty was established for all.”
― Edward Young

“All men think all men mortal but themselves.”
― Edward Young, Night Thoughts: Or, the Complaint and the Consolation

“The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.”
― Edward Young

“By night an atheist half believes in God.”
― 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

“Born Originals, how comes it to pass that we die Copies?”
― Edward Young

“But if an Original, by being as excellent, as new, adds admiration to surprize, then we are at the writer's mercy; on the strong wing of his imagination, we are snatched from Britain to Italy, from climate to climate, from pleasure to pleasure; we have no home, no thought, of our own; till the magician drops his pen: And then falling down into ourselves, we awake to flat realities, lamenting the change, like the beggar who dreamt himself a prince.”
― Edward Young

“Mine is the night, with all her stars.”
― Edward Young

“Menunda-nunda itu ibarat seorang pencuri waktu”
― Edward Young

“What ardently we wish we soon believe”
― Edward Young

“Procrastination is the thief of time.”
― Edward Young

“Those who build beneath the stars build too low.”
― Edward Young

“What mean we by genius, but the power of accomplishing great things without the means generally reputed necessary to that end?”
― Edward Young, Conjectures On Original Composition: In a Letter to the Author of Sir Charles Grandison

“But what are we? You never heard of Man,
Or Earth; the Bedlam of the universe!
Where Reason, undiseas’d with you, runs mad,
And nurses Folly’s children as her own;”
― Edward Young