Edward Joseph Young Quotes
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Some wits, too, like oracles, deal in ambiguities, but not with equal success; for though ambiguities are the first excellence of an imposter, they are the last of a wit.
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On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
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A tardy vengeance shares the tyrant's guilt.
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Of all the documents that have come down from antiquity, Genesis three is the only one that explains how the world became sinful and evil.
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A prince indebted is a fortune made.
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Death joins us to the great majority.
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The bell strikes One. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours.
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He that's ungrateful, has no guilt but one; All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.
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How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity!
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But love, like wine, gives a tumultuous bliss, Heighten'd indeed beyond all mortal pleasures; But mingles pangs and madness in the bowl.
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Pride, like hooded hawks, in darkness soars From blindness bold, and towering to the skies.
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The clouds may drop down titles and estates, wealth may seek us; but wisdom must be sought.
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If he provokes a war, his empire shakes, And all her lofty glories nod to ruin.
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High stations tumult, but not bliss create; None think the Great unhappy, but the Great.
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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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To Virtue's humblest son let none prefer Vice, tho' descended from the Conqueror.
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What is a miracle?--'Tis a reproach, 'Tis an implicit satire on mankind; And while it satisfies, it censures too.
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Yet man, fool man! here buries all his thoughts; Inters celestial hopes without one sigh. Prisoner of earth, and pent beneath the moon, Here pinions all his wishes.
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Men are but men; we did not make ourselves.
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Death! great proprietor of all! 'tis thine To tread out empire, and to quench the stars.
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Can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?
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He that lives in perpetual suspicion lives the life of a sentinel--of a sentinel never relieved, whose business it is to look out for and expect an enemy, which is an evil not very far short of perishing by him.
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At thirty a man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves; and re-resolves; then dies the same.
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Will toys amuse, when med'cines cannot cure? When spirits ebb, when life's enchanting scenes Their lustre lose, and lessen in our sight, As lands and cities, with their glittering spires, To the poor shatter'd bark by sudden storm Thrown off to sea, and soon to perish there? Will toys amuse? No: thrones will then be toys, And earth and skies seem dust upon the scale.