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Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, That all men are about to live.

Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, "That all men are about to live."

Edward Young
Mistake, Men, Bears
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.16

The soft whispers of the God in man.

Edward Young
Men, Conscience

Fame is the shade of immortality, And in itself a shadow. Soon as caught, Contemn'd; it shrinks to nothing in the grasp.

Edward Young
Shadow, Shade, Fame
Edward Young (1806). “Night Thoughts, on Life, Death, and Immortality ... With the life of the author. [With plates, including a portrait.]”, p.156

It is great and manly to disdain disguise; it shows our spirit and proves our strength.

Edward Young
Strength, Spirit, Disguise

The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.

Edward Young
Life, Fate, Men
Edward Young, John Mitford (1852). “The poetical works of Edward Young”, p.34

Let no man trust the first false step of guilt; it hangs upon a precipice, whose steep descent in last perdition ends.

Edward Young
Men, Guilt, Lasts
Edward Young (1730). “Busiris, King of Egypt. A tragedy, etc”, p.42

They build too low who build beneath the skies.

Edward Young
Ambition, Sky, Lows

Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise

Edward Young
Despise, Thyself
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.131

Man wants little, nor that little long.

Edward Young
Men, Long, Want

Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, A soldier should be modest as a maid.

Edward Young
Soldier, Bombs, Maids
Edward Young (1866). “The complete poetical works of Edward Young. With life”, p.293

Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!

Edward Young
Powerful, Ambition, Source
Edward Young (1813). “The Complaint; Or, Night Thoughts”, p.146

They only babble who practise not reflection

Edward Young
Reflection, Literature, Self Reflection

A dedication is a wooden leg.

Edward Young
Book, Dedication, Legs
Edward Young (1752). “Love of fame, the universal passion. In 7 satires [by E. Young].”, p.69

He sins against this life, who slights the next.

Edward Young
Next, Sin, This Life
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.56

A man of pleasure is a man of pains.

Edward Young
Pain, Men, Literature
Edward Young (1795). “The Complaint Or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality, to which are Added a Glossary, a Paraphrase on Part of the Book of Job, and a Poem on the Last Day”, p.239

The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away.

Edward Young
Running, Home, Men
Edward Young, John Mitford (1852). “The poetical works of Edward Young”, p.64

It calls Devotion! genuine growth of night! Devotion! Daughter of Astronomy! An undevout astronomer is mad!

Edward Young
Daughter, Night, Mad
'The Complaint: Night Thoughts' (1742-5) 'Night 9' l. 769

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

Edward Young
Eye, Heaven
Edward Young (1866). “The complete poetical works of Edward Young. With life”

Wonder is involuntary praise.

Edward Young
Wonder, Praise, Involuntary
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.221

They most the world enjoy who least admire.

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

An undevout astronomer is mad.

Edward Young
Mad, Astronomers
'The Complaint: Night Thoughts' (1742-5) 'Night 9' l. 769

The man that blushes is not quite a brute.

Edward Young
Men, Literature, He Man
Edward Young (1813). “The Complaint; Or, Night Thoughts”, p.183

Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.

Edward Young
Friendship, Strong, Wine
Edward Young (1856). “Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality”, p.135

[The] public path of life Is dirty.

Edward Young
Dirty, Path, Life Is
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.219

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Edward Young
Years, Age, Persons

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