Edward Young Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• How blessings brighten as they take their flight.

  Edward Young

  Blessing, Literature, Flight

  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.38

• 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

  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.108

• Our birth is nothing but our death begun; As tapers waste, that instant they take fire.

  Edward Young

  Death, Fire, Dying

  "The Complaint, Or Night-thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality".

• The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.

  Edward Young

  Trust, Sea, Safety

  John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins (1836). “The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins”, p.201

• Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled.

  Edward Young

  Procrastination, Years, Literature

  Edward Young, George Gilfillan (1853). “Night Thoughts”, p.17

• Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.

  Edward Young

  Weakness, Literature, Today

  Edward Young, Dr. Doran (John) (1854). “Imperium Pelagi, a naval lyric. Epistles to Mr. Pope, concerning the authors of the age. Sea-piece. The foreign address; or the best argument for peace. Epitaph on Lord Aubrey Beauclerk. Reflections on the public situation of the kingdom. An epistle to the right hon. Sir Robert Walpole. The old man's relapse. Resignation. Tragedies. Prose works”, p.79

• 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

  The Love of Fame Satire 7, l. 55 (1725 - 1728) See Porteus 1; Jean Rostand 1

• The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.

  Edward Young

  Wise, Joy, Literature

  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.236

• Wishing of all employments is the worst

  Edward Young

  Wish, Literature, Employment

  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.63

• By all means use some time to be alone.

  Edward Young

  Mean, Use, Literature

• They only babble who practise not reflection

  Edward Young

  Reflection, Literature, Self Reflection

• Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.

  Edward Young

  Nature, Literature, Mystery Of Nature

  Edward Young (1811). “The Works of the Rev. Dr. Edward Young”, p.226

• A friend is worth all hazards we can run.

  Edward Young

  Running, Literature, Hazards

  John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins (1836). “The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins”

• The man that blushes is not quite a brute.

  Edward Young

  Men, Literature, He Man

  Edward Young (1813). “The Complaint; Or, Night Thoughts”, p.183

• 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

• A man of pleasure is a man of pains.

  Edward Young

  Pain, Men, Literature

  Edward Young (1795). “The Complaint Or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality, to which are Added a Glossary, a Paraphrase on Part of the Book of Job, and a Poem on the Last Day”, p.239

• Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.

  Edward Young

  Men, May, Fool

  Edward Young (1806). “Night Thoughts, on Life, Death, and Immortality ... With the life of the author. [With plates, including a portrait.]”, p.80

• 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 future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done

  Edward Young

  Dream, Future, Pie

• Truth never was indebted to a lie

  Edward Young

  Truth, Lying, Literature

  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.226

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