Edward Young Quotes - Page 6

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• Who gives an empire, by the gift defeats All end of giving; and procures contempt Instead of gratitude.

  Edward Young

  Gratitude, Giving, Empires

  Edward Young (1811). “The Works of the Rev. Dr. Edward Young”, p.80

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

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  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

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• This is the bud of being, the dim dawn, The twilight of our day, the vestibule; Life's theatre as yet is shut, and death, Strong death, alone can heave the massy bar, This gross impediment of clay remove, And make us embryos of existence free.

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  Strong, Twilight, Theatre

  Edward Young (1823). “Night Thoughts on Life, Death & Immortality: To which is Added a Paraphrase on Part of the Book of Job, and the Last Day, a Poem”, p.4

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• O let me be undone the common way, And have the common comfort to be pity'd, And not be ruin'd in the mask of bliss, And so be envy'd, and be wretched too!

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  Envy, Comfort, Way

  Edward Young (1721). “The Revenge: A Tragedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. By His Majesty's Servants”, p.5

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• Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign.

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  Disease, Idiot, Vain

  Edward Young, Thomas Park (1808). “The Poetical Works of Edward Young: In Four Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions:”, p.107

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• When men of infamy to grandeur soar, They light a torch to show their shame the more.

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  Men, Light, Torches

  Edward Young (1866). “The complete poetical works of Edward Young. With life”, p.271

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• He sins against this life, who slights the next.

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  Next, Sin, This Life

  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.56

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• A dedication is a wooden leg.

  Edward Young

  Book, Dedication, Legs

  Edward Young (1752). “Love of fame, the universal passion. In 7 satires [by E. Young].”, p.69

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• However smothered under former negligence, or scattered through the dull, dark mass of common thoughts - let thy genius rise as the sun from chaos.

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  Dark, Genius, Dull

  Edward Young, John Doran (1854). “The complete works, poetry and prose, of ... Edward Young. Revised [by J. Nichols]. To which is prefixed, a life of the author, by J. Doran”, p.564

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• Death! great proprietor of all! 'tis thine To tread out empire, and to quench the stars.

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  Death, Stars, Empires

  Edward Young (1821). “Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality”, p.13

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• The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze.

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  Happiness, Men, Ties

  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.9

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• 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.

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  Tyrants, Leisure, Atlas

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

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• An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.

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  Death, Fear, Angel

  Edward Young (1760). “The complaint: or, Night-thoughts on life, death, and immortality. By E. Young”, p.4

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• A tardy vengeance shares the tyrant's guilt.

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  Tyrants, Guilt, Vengeance

  Edward Young (1730). “Busiris, King of Egypt. A tragedy, etc”, p.17

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• Youth is not rich in time; it may be poor; Part with it as with money, sparing; pay No moment but in purchase of its worth, And what it's worth, ask death-beds; they can tell.

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  Pay, Bed, May

  Edward Young, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Edward Young”, p.77

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• A prince indebted is a fortune made.

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  Made, Fortune, Indebted

  Edward Young (1756). “The Brothers: A Tragedy”, p.6

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• Not all the pride of beauty; Those eyes, that tell us what the sun is made of; Those lips, whose touch is to be bought with life; Those hills of driven snow, which seen are felt: All these possessed are nought, but as they are The proof, the substance of an inward passion, And the rich plunder of a taken heart.

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  Taken, Eye, Passion

  John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins (1836). “The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins”, p.188

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• The blood will follow where the knife is driven, The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear.

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  Blood, Knives, Tears

  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.243

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

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  Thinking, Soul, Solitude

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

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• A strange alternative * * *Must women have a doctor or a dance?

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  Doctors, Alternatives, Strange

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• As in smooth oil the razor best is whet, So wit is by politeness sharpest set; Their want of edge from their offence is seen, Both pain us least when exquisitely keen.

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  Pain, Oil, Razors

  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.358

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• Heaven's Sovereign saves all beings but himselfThat hideous sight,-a naked human heart.

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  Heart, Sight, Heaven

  Edward Young (1813). “The Complaint; Or, Night Thoughts”, p.51

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• One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven.

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  Eye, Heaven

  Edward Young (1866). “The complete poetical works of Edward Young. With life”

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• The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away.

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  Running, Home, Men

  Edward Young, John Mitford (1852). “The poetical works of Edward Young”, p.64

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• Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.

  Edward Young

  Learning, Thinking, Training

  Edward Young (1799). “The poetical works of ... E. Young. With the life of the author. Cooke's ed”, p.37

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