Quotes from Night-Thoughts — Edward Young
1683–1765 England
67 quotes
A death-bed ’s a detector of the heart.
The man of wisdom is the man of years.
Truth never was indebted to a lie.
Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!
Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew,
She sparkled, was exhal'd and went to heaven.
Thoughts shut up want air,
And spoil, like bales unopen’d to the sun.
The spirit walks of every day deceased.
A man of pleasure is a man of pains.
The course of Nature is the art of God.
Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer.
Final Ruin fiercely drives
Her plowshare o'er creation.
Virtue alone has majesty in death.
A God all mercy is a God unjust.
"I've lost a day!"—the prince who nobly cried,
Had been an emperor without his crown.
Man wants little, nor that little long.
'T is elder Scripture, writ by God's own hand,—
Scripture authentic! uncorrupt by man.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Edward Young (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.