EDWARD YOUNG QUOTES IV

English poet (1683-1765)

Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne,
In rayless majesty, now stretches forth
Her leaden scepter o'er a slumbering world.

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Night Thoughts

Tags: night


Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other's heel.

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Night Thoughts


'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.

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Night Thoughts

Tags: immortality


Ten thousand fools, knaves, cowards, lump'd together,
Become all-wise, all-righteous, and all-mighty.

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The Brothers

Tags: mobs


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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Night Thoughts

Tags: happiness


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

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Love of Fame: The Universal Passion in Seven Characteristical Satires


A prince indebted is a fortune made.

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The Brothers


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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Night Thoughts


We rise in glory, as we sink in pride:
Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.

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Night Thoughts

Tags: glory


In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps.

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The Centaur Not Fabulous

Tags: wisdom


Leisure is pain; takes off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life!

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Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality


Truth never was indebted to a lie.

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Night Thoughts

Tags: truth


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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Night Thoughts

Tags: time


Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.

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Night Thoughts


Excellent creature! How my soul pants for thee!

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Busiris, King of Egypt: A Tragedy


Too low they build who build beneath the stars.

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Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality

Tags: stars


To Virtue's humblest son let none prefer
Vice, tho' descended from the Conqueror.

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Love of Fame: The Universal Passion in Seven Characteristical Satires

Tags: virtue


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

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Night Thoughts

Tags: death


A tender smile, our sorrows' only balm.

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Love of Fame