Edward Young
Procrastination is the thief of time.Collection: Time
Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.Collection: Death
By all means use some time to be alone.Collection: Time
Too low they build, who build beneath the stars.Collection: Inspirational
The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.Collection: Wisdom
Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.Collection: Men
The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.Collection: Trust
Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.Collection: Death
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.Collection: Poetry
The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.Collection: Wisdom
Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.Collection: Friendship
Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.Collection: Nature
Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordlings enjoy.Collection: Learning
Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
Wonder is involuntary praise.
The man that makes a character, makes foes.
All men think all men mortal, but themselves.
Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise.
By night an atheist half believes in a God.
Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform.
Virtue alone has majesty in death.
A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.
An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.
A friend is worth all hazards we can run.
A God all mercy is a God unjust.
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.
Truth never was indebted to a lie.
A man of pleasure is a man of pains.
A Christian is the highest style of man.
Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.
The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.
They only babble who practise not reflection.
How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
Wishing of all employments is the worst.
The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.
Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
The purpose firm is equal to the deed.
None think the great unhappy, but the great.
Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.
One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.
Wise it is to comprehend the whole.
The course of Nature is the art of God.
We are all born originals - why is it so many of us die copies?Collection: Inspirational
And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?Collection: Eternity
As soon as we have found the key of life, it opens the gates of death.Collection: Life
Man makes a death which Nature never made. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.Collection: Nature
A foe to God ne'er was true friend to man, Some sinister intent taints all he does.Collection: True Friend
In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps; has no harvest from it, but carries the burden of age without the wages of experience; nor knows himself old, but from his infirmities, the parish register, and the contempt of mankind. And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.Collection: Age