Edward Young Quotes about Life

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As soon as we have found the key of life, it opens the gates of death.

As soon as we have found the key of life, it opens the gates of death.

Edward Young

Life, Keys, Found

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Edward Young

Life, Inspire, Fear Of Death

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.103

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

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

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

Creation sleeps! 'T is as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause,- An awful pause! prophetic of her end.

Edward Young

Life, Nature, Sleep

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.3

Ah! what is human life? How, like the dial's tardy-moving shade, Day after day slides from us unperceiv'd! The cunning fugitive is swift by stealth; Too subtle is the movement to be seen; Yet soon the hour is up--and we are gone.

Edward Young

Life, Moving, Slides

Edward Young (1719). “The dramatic works of Edward Young”, p.72