Quote

Read nature nature is a friend to truth.

Edward Young

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Truth
Friend
Literature
Read
Nature

More quotes by Edward Young

Image
Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, That all men are about to live.
Edward Young
Image
On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
Edward Young
Image
Man wants little, nor that little long.
Edward Young
Image
A tardy vengeance shares the tyrant's guilt.
Edward Young
Image
Wonder is involuntary praise.
Edward Young
Image
Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How comet-like, it threatens while it shines.
Edward Young
Image
Men before you have quit smoking - you can too!
Edward Young
Image
The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away.
Edward Young
Image
It is great and manly to disdain disguise it shows our spirit and proves our strength.
Edward Young
Image
Friendship's the wine of life.
Edward Young
Image
Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed: Who does the best his circumstance allows Does well, acts nobly angels could no more.
Edward Young
Image
Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread.
Edward Young
Image
What most we wish, with ease we fancy near.
Edward Young
Image
A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.
Edward Young
Image
Wouldst thou be famed? have those high acts in view, Brave men would act though scandal would ensue.
Edward Young
Image
The purpose firm is equal to the deed
Edward Young
Image
Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man.
Edward Young
Image
Tis immortality, 'tis that alone, Amid life's pains, abasements, emptiness, The soul can comfort, elevate, and fill. That only, and that amply this performs.
Edward Young
Image
Who gives an empire, by the gift defeats All end of giving and procures contempt Instead of gratitude.
Edward Young
Image
Age should fly concourse, cover in retreat defects of judgment, and the will subdue walk thoughtful on the silent, solemn shore of that vast ocean it must sail so soon.
Edward Young