Quote

One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven.

Edward Young

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Heaven
Eye
Death
Full

More quotes by Edward Young

Image
Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
Edward Young
Image
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.
Edward Young
Image
Prayer ardent opens heaven.
Edward Young
Image
Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
Edward Young
Image
Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile.
Edward Young
Image
He sins against this life, who slights the next.
Edward Young
Image
How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity!
Edward Young
Image
Friendship's the wine of life.
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
Day buries day month, month and year the year: Our life is but a chain of many deaths.
Edward Young
Image
Read nature nature is a friend to truth.
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
We push time from us, and we wish him back * * * * * * Life we think long and short death seek and shun.
Edward Young
Image
On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
Edward Young
Image
When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.
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
Angels are men of a superior kind Angels are men in lighter habit clad.
Edward Young
Image
This is the bud of being, the dim dawn, The twilight of our day, the vestibule Life's theatre as yet is shut, and death, Strong death, alone can heave the massy bar, This gross impediment of clay remove, And make us embryos of existence free.
Edward Young
Image
At thirty, man suspects himself a fool Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
Edward Young
Image
Men before you have quit smoking - you can too!
Edward Young