Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
There buds the promise of celestial worth.
Edward Young
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Worth
Buds
Bud
Celestial
Promise
More quotes by Edward Young
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
An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave legions of angels can't confine me there.
Edward Young
Friendship's the wine of life.
Edward Young
Where Nature's end of language is declin'd, And men talk only to conceal the mind.
Edward Young
The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss it breaks at every breeze.
Edward Young
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.
Edward Young
Be wise with speed a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
Edward Young
Wouldst thou be famed? have those high acts in view, Brave men would act though scandal would ensue.
Edward Young
Virtue alone has majesty in death.
Edward Young
Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue.
Edward Young
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.
Edward Young
By all means use some time to be alone.
Edward Young
Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
Edward Young
Who gives an empire, by the gift defeats All end of giving and procures contempt Instead of gratitude.
Edward Young
Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile.
Edward Young
Time destroyed Is suicide, where more than blood is spilt.
Edward Young
What is a miracle?--'Tis a reproach, 'Tis an implicit satire on mankind And while it satisfies, it censures too.
Edward Young
Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, That all men are about to live.
Edward Young
A land of levity is a land of guilt.
Edward Young
Truth never was indebted to a lie
Edward Young