Edward Young Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• 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

  Tyrants, Leisure, Atlas

  Edward Young (1821). “Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality”, p.25

• 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

  Men, Sky, Sun

  Thomas Otway, Aaron Hill, Edward Young, Nathaniel Lee (1765). “THE ENGLISH THEATRE IN EIGHT VOLUMES: CONTAINING The Most Valuable PLAYS Which Have Been Acted on the LONDON STAGE.. REVENGE. By Dr. Young. RIVAL QUEENS. By Mr. Lee. THEODOSIUS, or the FORCE of LOVE. By Mr. Lee. VENICE PRESERVED. By Mr. Otway. ZARA. By A. Hill. Esq”, p.51

• 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

  Song, Lying, Dust

  Edward Young (1839). “Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality”, p.47

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