Edward Young Quotes
1683 – 1765
English poet, author of "Night Thoughts".
22 quotes
“Amid my list of blessings infinite, stands this the foremost, 'That my heart has bled.'”
“The bell strikes one. We take no note of time but from its loss.”
“On reason build resolve, that column of true majesty in man.”
“Thoughts shut up want air, and spoil, like bales unopened to the sun.”
“Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids; her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall.”
“The love of praise, howe'er concealed by art, reigns more or less, and glows in every heart.”
“An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.”
“Life is the desert, life the solitude; death joins us to the great majority.”
