Edward Young Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• 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

• Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue.

  Edward Young

  Children, Revenge, Fire

  Edward Young (1825). “The Revenge: A Tragedy, in Five Acts”, p.12

• The soul of man was made to walk the skies.

  Edward Young

  Men, Sky, Soul

  Edward Young (1856). “Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality”, p.457

• Body and soul, like peevish man and wife, United jar, and yet are loth to part.

  Edward Young

  Men, Wife, 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.25

• Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . Less base the fear of death than fear of life. O Britain! infamous for suicide.

  Edward Young

  Suicide, Wings, 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.103

• Tis immortality, 'tis that alone, Amid life's pains, abasements, emptiness, The soul can comfort, elevate, and fill. That only, and that amply this performs.

  Edward Young

  Pain, Soul, Comfort

  Edward Young, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1803). “Night Thoughts ... With notes ... by the Rev. C. E. de Coetlogon ... To which are added the author's poem on the Last Day, the paraphrase on part of the Book of Job [with other poems], and his life”, p.172

• O! lost to virtue, lost to manly thought, Lost to the noble sallies of the soul! Who think it solitude to be alone.

  Edward Young

  Thinking, Soul, Solitude

  William Danby, Edward Young (1832). “Extracts from Young's Night thoughts, with observations upon them”, p.15

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