Words matter. These are the best Edward Young Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
An angel’s arm can’t snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can’t confine me there.
Wishing of all employments is the worst.
Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.
Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
All men think all men mortal, but themselves.
Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordlings enjoy.
Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.
All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.
Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform.
Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
A friend is worth all hazards we can run.
Virtue alone has majesty in death.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
The man that makes a character, makes foes.
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.
Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live forever? Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all? This is a miracle; and that no more.
A God all mercy is a God unjust.
The course of Nature is the art of God.
By night an atheist half believes in a God.
The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.
A man of pleasure is a man of pains.
Wonder is involuntary praise.
The future… seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.
By all means use some time to be alone.
A Christian is the highest style of man.
The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.
Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.
How blessings brighten as they take their flight.