Quotes by Young, Edward

"Virtue alone has majesty in death."

Young, Edward on death   

"All men think that all men are mortal but themselves."

Young, Edward on death   

"Illustrious examples engross, prejudice, and intimidate. They engross our attention, and so prevent a due inspection of ourselves; they prejudice our judgment in favor of their abilities, and so lessen the sense of our own; and they intimidate us with the"

Young, Edward on example   

"Less base the fear of death than fear of life."

Young, Edward on fear   

"The purpose firm is equal to the deed."

Young, Edward on firmness   

"Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed."

Young, Edward on age and aging   

"Those who build beneath the stars build too low."

Young, Edward on goals   

"None think the great unhappy, but the great."

Young, Edward on greatness   

"Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy."

Young, Edward on learning   

"Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority."

Young, Edward on death   

"By night an atheist half believes in God."

Young, Edward on atheism   

"Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene."

Young, Edward on procrastination   

"Some, for renown, on scraps of learning dote, and think they grow immortal as they quote."

Young, Edward on quotations   

"To leave a sting within a brother's heart."

Young, Edward on service   

"Our birth is nothing but our death begun."

Young, Edward on birth
3 fans of this quote   

"The man that blushes is not quite a brute."

Young, Edward on blush   

"The man that makes a character, makes foes."

Young, Edward on character   

"At thirty, man suspects himself a fool;Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan;At fifty, chides his infamous delay,Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve;In all the magnanimity of thoughtResolves, and re-resolves; then dies the same. And why? Because he thinks himself immortal. All men think all men mortal but themselves. "

Young, Edward on uncategorised