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Edward Young on Wedding

1683–1765 England

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9 quotes

As Love alone can exquisitely bless,
Love only feels the marvellous of pain;
Opens new veins of torture in the soul,
And wakes the nerve where agonies are born.

The Brothers (1753)

Heaven’s Sovereign saves all beings but himself
That hideous sight,—a naked human heart.

Night-Thoughts (1742)

Body and soul, like peevish man and wife,
United jar, and yet are loth to part.

Who, for the poor renown of being smart,
Would leave a sting within a brother's heart?

Humble love,
And not proud reason, keeps the door of heaven;
Love finds admission, where proud science fails.

The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art,
Reigns more or less, and glows, in ev'ry heart.

The love of praise, howe'er concealed by art,
Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.

Love of Fame (1725)

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

Night-Thoughts (1742)

He weeps! the falling drop puts out the sun; He sighs! the sigh earth's deep foundation shakes. If in His love so terrible, what then His wrath inflamed?

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Edward Young (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.