Edward Young
Edward Young
Edward Youngwas an English poet, best remembered for Night-Thoughts...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth3 July 1683
sweet quality body
The qualities all in a bee that we meet, In an epigram never should fail; The body should always be little and sweet, And a sting should be felt in its tail.
sweet reason instinct
Sweet instinct leaps; slow reason feebly climbs.
inspirational sweet flow
On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
beautiful sweet gay
Beautiful as sweet, And young as beautiful, and soft as young, And gay as soft, and innocent as gay!
sweet sleep tired
Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where fortune smiles; the wretched he forsakes.
began believe chance courage develop fast fill gave glow happiness kinds limited looked mind placed rid tangled treating tried truths tune warm zeal
I had looked for happiness in fast living, but it was not there. I tried to find it in money, but it was not there either. But when I placed myself in tune with what I believe to be the fundamental truths of life, when I began to develop my limited ability, to rid my mind of all kinds of tangled thoughts, and fill it with zeal and courage and love, when I gave myself a chance by treating myself decently and sensibly, I began to feel the stimulating, warm glow of happiness.
accept dull instead lines miracle pencil wit
Accept a miracle instead of wit and see two dull lines with Stanhope's pencil writ.
breakfast nor project stratagem tea
For her own breakfast she'll project a scheme, Nor take her tea without a stratagem
due example examples favor inspection intimidate judgment lessen prejudice prevent
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
english-poet less seems thou
Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live forever? Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all? This is a miracle; and that no more.
english-poet idlers
Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform.
beneath
Too low they build, who build beneath the stars.
men themselves
All men think all men mortal, but themselves
believes half
By night an atheist half believes in a God.