Edward Young Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• Think naught a trifle, though it small appear; Small stands the mountain, moments make the year, and trifles life.

  Edward Young

  Life, Thinking, Years

• Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

  Edward Young

  Life, Inspire, Fear Of Death

  Edward Young, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1793). “Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job”, p.103

• He mourns the dead who lives as they desire.

  Edward Young

  Life, Desire, Mourn

  Edward Young, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1793). “Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job”, p.20

• 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

  Life, Nature, Sleep

  Edward Young, John Doran, James Nichols (1854). “The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.: Revised and Collated with the Earliest Editions. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author”, p.3

• 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

  Life, Fate, Men

  Edward Young, John Mitford (1852). “The poetical works of Edward Young”, p.34

• Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

  Edward Young

  Life, Sympathy, Death

  The Revenge act 4 (1721) See Nixon 10; Petronius 2

• As soon as we have found the key of life, it opens the gates of death.

  Edward Young

  Life, Keys, Found

• 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

  Life, Moving, Slides

  Edward Young (1719). “The dramatic works of Edward Young”, p.72

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