Edward Young Quotes

Be wise with speed;
A fool at forty is a fool indeed.

The booby father craves a booby son,
And by Heaven’s blessing thinks himself undone.

As Love alone can exquisitely bless,
Love only feels the marvellous of pain;
Opens new veins of torture in the soul,
And wakes the nerve where agonies are born.

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

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.

Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!

Too low they build, who build beneath the stars.

A soul without reflection, like a pile
Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.

What ardently we wish we soon believe.

"I've lost a day!"—the prince who nobly cried,
Had been an emperor without his crown.

On reason build resolve,
that column of true majesty in man.

Wishing, of all employments, is the worst.

And what its worth, ask death-beds; they can tell.

Like our shadows, Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.

Man makes a death which Nature never made.