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Edward Young Quotes


Procrastination is the thief of time.

Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.

Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise.

Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.

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.

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

The course of Nature is the art of God.

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

The house of laughter makes a house of woe.

The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.

The man that blushes is not quite a brute.

The man that makes a character, makes foes.

The purpose firm is equal to the deed.

The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.

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

They only babble who practise not reflection.

Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform.

Too low they build who build below the skies.