Edward Young famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
-- Edward Young

#Blessing #Literature #Flight
Too low they build who build below the skies.
-- Edward Young

#Sky #Goal #Literature
A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.
-- Edward Young

#Running #Reflection #Soul
Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
-- Edward Young

#Birthday #Wise #Fortune Cookie
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.
-- Edward Young

#Poetry #Literature #Logic
The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.
-- Edward Young

#Wisdom #Clouds #Titles
Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.
-- Edward Young

#Death #Fire #Dying
Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
-- Edward Young

#Life #Death #Solitude
An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.
-- Edward Young

#Death #Fear #Angel
Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.
-- Edward Young

#Weakness #Literature #Today
Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.
-- Edward Young

#Learning #Thinking #Training
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

#Art #Fear #War

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