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Amid my list of blessings infinite, stands this the foremost, that my heart has bled.

Amid my list of blessings infinite, stands this the foremost, "that my heart has bled."

Gratitude, Heart, Blessing

Edward Young, Charles Cowden CLARKE, George Gilfillan (1861). “Young's Night Thoughts. With life and critical dissertation, by the Rev. G. Gilfillan. The text edited by Charles Cowden Clarke”, p.254

He that's ungrateful has no guilt but one; All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.

Edward Young

Ungrateful, Guilt, May

Edward Young (1792). “The works of the author of the night-thoughts”, p.259

This vast and solid earth, that blazing sun, Those skies, thro' which it rolls, must all have end. What then is man? The smallest part of nothing.

Edward Young

Men, Sky, Sun

Thomas Otway, Aaron Hill, Edward Young, Nathaniel Lee (1765). “THE ENGLISH THEATRE IN EIGHT VOLUMES: CONTAINING The Most Valuable PLAYS Which Have Been Acted on the LONDON STAGE.. REVENGE. By Dr. Young. RIVAL QUEENS. By Mr. Lee. THEODOSIUS, or the FORCE of LOVE. By Mr. Lee. VENICE PRESERVED. By Mr. Otway. ZARA. By A. Hill. Esq”, p.51

The purpose firm is equal to the deed

Edward Young

Deeds, Purpose, Firmness

Edward Young, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1793). “Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job”, p.22

What is revenge but courage to call in our honor's debts, and wisdom to convert others' self-love into our own protection?

Edward Young

Revenge, Self, Honor

The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss.

Edward Young

Time, Loss, Bells

'The Complaint: Night Thoughts' (1742-5) 'Night 1' l. 55

What is a miracle?--'Tis a reproach, 'Tis an implicit satire on mankind; And while it satisfies, it censures too.

Edward Young

Miracle, Satire, Mankind

Edward Young (1839). “Night thoughts on life, death, and immortality. [Followed by] A paraphrase on part of the book of Job”, p.228

Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.

Edward Young

Wish, Shadow, Age

Edward Young (1806). “Night Thoughts, on Life, Death, and Immortality ... With the life of the author. [With plates, including a portrait.]”, p.101

He mourns the dead who lives as they desire.

Edward Young

Life, Desire, Mourn

Edward Young, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1793). “Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job”, p.20

We push time from us, and we wish him back; * * * * * * Life we think long and short; death seek and shun.

Edward Young

Time, Thinking, Long

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

Edward Young

Life, Sympathy, Death

The Revenge act 4 (1721) See Nixon 10; Petronius 2

Truth never was indebted to a lie

Edward Young

Truth, Lying, Literature

Edward Young, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1793). “Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job”, p.226

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

Edward Young

Wisdom, Clouds, Titles

Edward Young, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1793). “Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job”, p.227

The man of wisdom is the man of years.

Edward Young

Wisdom, Men, Years

Edward Young (1815). “The complaint; or, Night thoughts, on life, death, and immortality. [Followed by] A paraphrase on part of the book of Job. With the life of the author [signed G.W.].”, p.99

Sense is our helmet, wit is but the plume; The plume exposes, 'tis our helmet saves. Sense is the diamond, weighty, solid, sound; When cut by wit, it casts a brighter beam; Yet, wit apart, it is a diamond still.

Edward Young

Cutting, Sound, Beam

Edward Young (1837). “The Complaint and Consolation; Or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality: To which is Added, The Force of Religion”, p.204

'T is greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven.

Edward Young

Wise, Past, Heaven

Edward Young, John Doran, James Nichols (1854). “The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.: Revised and Collated with the Earliest Editions. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author”, p.23

The qualities all in a bee that we meet, In an epigram never should fail; The body should always be little and sweet, And a sting should be felt in its tail.

Edward Young

Sweet, Quality, Tails

Titles are marks of honest men, and wise; The fool or knave that wears a title lies.

Edward Young

Wise, Honesty, Lying

Edward Young, Sir Herbert Croft, Sir Herbert Croft (5th bart), Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Edward Young ...”, p.134

Narcissus is the glory of his race: For who does nothing with a better grace?.

Edward Young

Race, Doe, Glory

'Love of Fame: The Universal Passion' (1725-8) Satire 4, l. 86

The booby father craves a booby son, And by Heaven's blessing thinks himself undone.

Edward Young

Father, Son, Blessing

Edward Young, John Mitford (1852). “The poetical works of Edward Young”, p.74

Praise, more divine than prayer; prayer points our ready path to heaven; praise is already there.

Edward Young

Prayer, Heaven, Path

John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins (1836). “The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins”, p.179

The man that makes a character, makes foes.

Edward Young

Character, Men, He Man

Edward Young, Dr. Doran (John) (1854). “Imperium Pelagi, a naval lyric. Epistles to Mr. Pope, concerning the authors of the age. Sea-piece. The foreign address; or the best argument for peace. Epitaph on Lord Aubrey Beauclerk. Reflections on the public situation of the kingdom. An epistle to the right hon. Sir Robert Walpole. The old man's relapse. Resignation. Tragedies. Prose works”, p.32