Edward Young

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

— Edward Young

By night an atheist half believes in God.

— Edward Young

Our birth is nothing but our death begun.

— Edward Young

The man that blushes is not quite a brute.

— Edward Young

The man that makes a character, makes foes.

— Edward Young

Virtue alone has majesty in death.

— Edward Young

All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.

— Edward Young

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

— Edward Young

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

— Edward Young

The purpose firm is equal to the deed.

— Edward Young

Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

— Edward Young

None think the great unhappy, but the great.

— Edward Young

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

— Edward Young

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

— Edward Young

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.

— Edward Young

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

— Edward Young

To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

— Edward Young

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.

— Edward Young