Edward Young Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• 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

• Virtue alone has majesty in death.

  Edward Young

  Death, Dying, Majesty

  Edward Young (1837). “The Complaint and Consolation; Or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality: To which is Added, The Force of Religion”, p.35

• What tender force, what dignity divine, what virtue consecrating every feature; around that neck what dross are gold and pearl!

  Edward Young

  Gold, Pearls, Necks

  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.146

• Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself. Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids; Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall.

  Edward Young

  Fall, Men, Egypt

• He that's ungrateful has no guilt but one; All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.

  Edward Young

  Ungrateful, Guilt, May

  Edward Young (1792). “The works of the author of the night-thoughts”, p.259

• 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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