Edward Young Quotes

Their feet through faithless leather met the dirt,
And oftener chang'd their principles than shirt.

Affliction is a good man's shining time.

Ah! what is human life?
How, like the dial's tardy-moving shade,
Day after day slides from us unperceiv'd!
The cunning fugitive is swift by stealth;
Too subtle is the movement to be seen;
Yet soon the hour is up—and we are gone.

The man of wisdom is the man of years.

What ardently we wish we soon believe

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

The blood will follow where the knife is driven,
The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear.

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

For Rules, like Crutches, are a needful Aid to the Lame, tho' an impediment to the Strong.

A friend is worth all hazards we can run.

Accept a miracle instead of wit,—
See two dull lines with Stanhope's pencil writ.

Life's cares are comforts; such by Heav'n design'd; He that hath none must make them, or be wretched.

Prayer ardent opens heaven.

A man of pleasure is a man of pains.

Great let me call him, for he conquered me.