| 67 Famous Quotes by Edward Young
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“Fond man! the vision of a moment made!
Dream of a dream! and shadow of a shade!”
Visions Quotes Source: Paraphrase on Part of the Book of Job (l. 187)
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“What most we wish, with ease we fancy near.”
Wishes Quotes Source: Love of Fame (III)
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“Man wants but little, nor that little long;
How soon must he resign his very dust,
Which frugal nature lent him for an hour!”
Wishes Quotes Source: Night Thoughts (night IV, l. 118)
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“Wishing, of all employments is the worst.”
Wishes Quotes Source: Night Thoughts (night IV, l. 71)
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“He calls his wish, it comes; he sends it back,
And says he called another; that arrives,
Meets the same welcome; yet he still calls on;
Till one calls him, who varies not his call,
But holds him fast, in chains of darkness bound,
Till Nature dies, and judgment sets him free;
A freedom far less welcome than this chain.”
Wishes Quotes Source: Night Thoughts (night IV, lines near end)
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“What folly can be ranker. Like our shadows,
Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.”
Wishes Quotes Source: Night Thoughts (night V, l. 661)
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“A partial world will list to my lays,
While Anna reigns, and sets a female name
Unrival'd in the glorious lists of fame.”
Royalty Quotes Source: Force of Religion (bk. I, l. 6)
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“Titles are marks of honest men, and wise:
The fool or knave that wears a title lies.”
Nobility Quotes Source: Love of Fame (satire I, l. 145)
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“Give me, indulgent gods! with mind serene,
And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene;
No splendid poverty, no smiling care,
No well-bred hate, or servile grandeur, there.”
Satisfaction Quotes Source: Love of Fame (satire I, l. 235)
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“A dearth of words a woman need not fear;
But 'tis a task indeed to learn to hear:
In that the skill of conversation lies;
That shows and makes you both polite and wise.”
Conversation Quotes Source: Love of Fame (satire V, l. 57)
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“Inhumanity is caught from man,
From smiling man.”
Cruelty Quotes Source: Night Thoughts (night V, l. 158)
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“I've known my lady (for she loves a tune)
For fevers take an opera in June:
And, though perhaps you'll think the practice bold,
A midnight park is sov'reign for a cold.”
Sickness Quotes Source: Love of Fame (satire V, l. 185)
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“He that's ungrateful has no guilt but one;
All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.”
Ingratitude Quotes Source: Busiris
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“A land of levity is a land of guilt.”
Guilt Quotes Source: Night Thoughts (night VII, preface)
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“Thou art so witty, profligate and thin,
At once we think thee Satan, Death and Sin.”
Epigrams Quotes Source: Epigram on Voltaire, who had criticized the characters of the same name in "Paradise Lost"
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“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.”
Epigrams Quotes Source: Epigram on Voltaire, who had criticized the characters of the same name in "Paradise Lost"
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“He rams his quill with scandal and with scoff,
But 'tis so very foul, it won't go off.”
Scandal Quotes Source: Epistles to Pope (ep. I, l. 199)
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“Is there a tongue like Delia's o'er her cup,
That runs for ages without winding up?”
Tongue Quotes Source: Love of Fame (satire I, l. 281)
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“Then lady Cynthia, mistress of the shade,
Goes, with the fashionable owls, to bed.”
Owls Quotes Source: Love of Fame (satire V, l. 209)
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“At thirty, man suspects himself a fool,
Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan;
At fifty, chides his infamous delay,
Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve,
In all the magnanimity of thought;
Resolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same.
And why? because he thinks himself immortal,
All men think all men mortal but themselves.”
Mortality Quotes Source: Night Thoughts (night I, l. 417)
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“What is a miracle?--'Tis a reproach,
'Tis an implicit satire on mankind;
And while it satisfies, it censures too.”
Miracles Quotes Source: Night Thoughts (night IX, l. 1,245)
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“O how loud
It calls devotion! genuine growth of night!
Devotion! daughter of Astronomy!
As undevout Astronomer is mad.”
Astronomy Quotes Source: Night Thoughts (night IX, l. 774)
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“Nothing but what astonishes is true.”
Wonders Quotes Source: Night Thoughts (night IX)
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“We nothing know, but what is marvellous;
Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe.”
Wonders Quotes Source: Night Thoughts (night VII)
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“Affliction is the good man's shining scene;
Prosperity conceals his brightest ray;
As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.”
Affliction Quotes Source: Night Thoughts (night IX, l. 415)
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