Edward Young
Edward Young
Edward Youngwas an English poet, best remembered for Night-Thoughts...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth3 July 1683
angel men kind
Angels are men of a superior kind; Angels are men in lighter habit clad.
nature progress delight
Nature delights in progress; in advance.
nature fancy rich
Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor ; who lives to fancy, never can be rich.
love long giving
To know the world, not love her, is thy point; She gives but little, nor that little, long.
goodbye farewell fate
But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.
shadow wish age-and-youth
Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
love woe solitary
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other's heel.
wisdom men years
The man of wisdom is the man of years.
wise madness being-wise
Be wise to-day; 't is madness to defer.
life sleep awful
Creation sleeps! 'T is as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause,- An awful pause! prophetic of her end.
life desire mourn
He mourns the dead who lives as they desire.
time thrown
Time elaborately thrown away.
strength spirit disguise
It is great and manly to disdain disguise; it shows our spirit and proves our strength.
church proud way
Some go to Church, proud humbly to repent, And come back much more guilty than they went: One way they look, another way they steer, Pray to the Gods; but would have Mortals hear; And when their sins they set sincerely down, They'll find that their Religion has been one.