Quote

Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!

Edward Young

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Ambition
Source
Powerful
Good
Ill

More quotes by Edward Young

Image
Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
Edward Young
Image
Fond man! the vision of a moment made! Dream of a dream! and shadow of a shade!
Edward Young
Image
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
Image
By night an atheist half-believes in God.
Edward Young
Image
Be wise to-day 't is madness to defer.
Edward Young
Image
But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.
Edward Young
Image
Titles are marks of honest men, and wise The fool or knave that wears a title lies.
Edward Young
Image
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.
Edward Young
Image
O! lost to virtue, lost to manly thought, Lost to the noble sallies of the soul! Who think it solitude to be alone.
Edward Young
Image
Time destroyed Is suicide, where more than blood is spilt.
Edward Young
Image
Virtue alone has majesty in death.
Edward Young
Image
Who combats with a brother, wounds himself.
Edward Young
Image
It calls Devotion! genuine growth of night! Devotion! Daughter of Astronomy! An undevout astronomer is mad!
Edward Young
Image
Time elaborately thrown away.
Edward Young
Image
The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away.
Edward Young
Image
Pity swells the tide of love.
Edward Young
Image
The man who consecrates his hours by vigorous effort, and an honest aim, at once he draws the sting of life and Death he walks with nature and her paths are peace.
Edward Young
Image
Ne'er to meet, or ne'er to part, is peace.
Edward Young
Image
Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, That all men are about to live.
Edward Young
Image
A God alone can comprehend a God.
Edward Young