Quote

The man that makes a character, makes foes.

Edward Young

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Foes
Foe
Makes
Character
Men

More quotes by Edward Young

Image
An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave legions of angels can't confine me there.
Edward Young
Image
The soft whispers of the God in man.
Edward Young
Image
A God alone can comprehend a God.
Edward Young
Image
Friendship's the wine of life.
Edward Young
Image
Men are but men we did not make ourselves.
Edward Young
Image
Day buries day month, month and year the year: Our life is but a chain of many deaths.
Edward Young
Image
A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.
Edward Young
Image
Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
Edward Young
Image
Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . Less base the fear of death than fear of life. O Britain! infamous for suicide.
Edward Young
Image
The spirit walks of every day deceased.
Edward Young
Image
The bell strikes One. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours.
Edward Young
Image
Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ.
Edward Young
Image
There is nothing of which men are more liberal than their good advice, be their stock of it ever so small because it seems to carry in it an intimation of their own influence, importance or worth.
Edward Young
Image
The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.
Edward Young
Image
Prayer ardent opens heaven.
Edward Young
Image
Who, for the poor renown of being smart, Would leave a sting within a brother's heart?
Edward Young
Image
Affliction is a good man's shining time.
Edward Young
Image
Man wants little, nor that little long.
Edward Young
Image
Man makes a death which Nature never made. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.
Edward Young
Image
Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.
Edward Young