Edward Young Quotes

"Read nature; nature is a friend to truth."

"The man that blushes is not quite a brute."

"Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy."

"By night an atheist half believes in God."

"Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled."

"Reason is progressive; instinct is complete; swift instinct leaps; slow reason feebly climbs."

"The man that makes a character, makes foes."

"Procrastination is the thief of time."

"Wise it is to comprehend the whole."

"By all means use some time to be alone."

"Too low they build who build below the skies."

"They only babble who practise not reflection."

"An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there."

"All men think all men mortal, but themselves"

"Illustrious examples engross, prejudice, and intimidate. They engross our attention, and so prevent a due inspection of ourselves; they prejudice our judgment in favor of their abilities, and so lessen the sense of our own; and they intimidate us with the"

"Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise."

"The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done."

"There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired."

"Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure."

"Wishing of all employments is the worst."