Edward Young on Birthday
1683–1765 England
21 quotes
To frown at pleasure, and to smile in pain.
In records that defy the tooth of time.
Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new * * * is neither strong nor pure.
A foe to God was ne'er true friend to man,
Some sinister intent taints all he does.
Beware what earth calls happiness; beware
All joys, but joys that never can expire.
Joys season'd high, and tasting strong of guilt.
A friend is worth all hazards we can run.
True happiness ne'er entered at an eye;
True happiness resides in things unseen.
We see time's furrows on another's brow,
* * * * *
How few themselves in that just mirror see!
And can eternity belong to me,
Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?
In leaves, more durable than leaves of brass,
Writes our whole history.
Like our shadows,
Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
Nought treads so silent as the foot of Time;
Hence we mistake our autumn for our prime.
The bell strikes one. We take no note of time
But from its loss.
Time wasted is existence, used is life.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Edward Young (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.