Edward Young
Edward Young
Edward Youngwas an English poet, best remembered for Night-Thoughts...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth3 July 1683
time thinking long
We push time from us, and we wish him back; * * * * * * Life we think long and short; death seek and shun.
mystery-of-nature
Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.
thinking soul solitude
O! lost to virtue, lost to manly thought, Lost to the noble sallies of the soul! Who think it solitude to be alone.
thinking greatness unhappy
None think the great unhappy, but the great.
men hard-times tough-times
Affliction is a good man's shining time.
brother smart heart
Who, for the poor renown of being smart, Would leave a sting within a brother's heart?
doctors alternatives strange
A strange alternative * * *Must women have a doctor or a dance?
world admire enjoy
They most the world enjoy who least admire.
Ne'er to meet, or ne'er to part, is peace.
pain oil razors
As in smooth oil the razor best is whet, So wit is by politeness sharpest set; Their want of edge from their offence is seen, Both pain us least when exquisitely keen.
heart sight heaven
Heaven's Sovereign saves all beings but himselfThat hideous sight,-a naked human heart.
yesterday looks backwards
Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile.
running home men
The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away.
procrastination men fool
At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.