Quote

Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ.

Edward Young

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Two
Wit
Dull
Miracle
Accept
Accepting
Instead
Writ
Lines
Pencil
Hope
Pencils

More quotes by Edward Young

Image
Fond man! the vision of a moment made! Dream of a dream! and shadow of a shade!
Edward Young
Image
Prayer ardent opens heaven.
Edward Young
Image
'T is greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven.
Edward Young
Image
A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.
Edward Young
Image
Angels are men of a superior kind Angels are men in lighter habit clad.
Edward Young
Image
The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
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
The soft whispers of the God in man.
Edward Young
Image
Think naught a trifle, though it small appear Small stands the mountain, moments make the year, and trifles life.
Edward Young
Image
Old men love novelties the last arriv'd Still pleases best the youngest steals their smiles.
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
Horace appears in good humor while he censures, and therefore his censure has the more weight, as supposed to proceed from judgment and not from passion.
Edward Young
Image
Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue.
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
Image
He sins against this life, who slights the next.
Edward Young
Image
The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done
Edward Young
Image
Time destroyed Is suicide, where more than blood is spilt.
Edward Young
Image
Man makes a death which Nature never made. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.
Edward Young
Image
Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself. Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall.
Edward Young
Image
Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
Edward Young