Edward Young

Edward Young

Poet, Playwright

Edward Young was an English poet known for his reflective work 'Night Thoughts', which explores themes of mortality and the human experience.

Men Literature Nature Heaven Death Wise
Born
January 1, 1683
Died
January 1, 1765
Quotes
224
Rank
#3851

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"Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man."

Men Caught Cruelty
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"A dearth of words a woman need not fear; But 'tis a task indeed to learn to hear: In that the skill of conversation lies; That shows and makes you both polite and wise."

Wise Lying Skills
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"We wish our names eternally to live; Wild dream! which ne'er had haunted human thought, Had not our natures been eternal too."

Dream Names Wish
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"Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ."

Hope Two Miracle
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"Heaven wills our happiness, allows our doom."

Heaven Doom
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"Final Ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare o'er creation."

Society Finals Ruins
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"Life's cares are comforts; such by Heav'n design'd; He that hath none must make them, or be wretched."

Design Comfort Care
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"Angels are men of a superior kind; Angels are men in lighter habit clad."

Angel Men Kind
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"Age should fly concourse, cover in retreat defects of judgment, and the will subdue; walk thoughtful on the silent, solemn shore of that vast ocean it must sail so soon."

Ocean Thoughtful Silence
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"In youth, what disappointments of our own making: in age, what disappointments from the nature of things."

Disappointment Age Youth
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"Distinguisht Link in Being's endless Chain! Midway from Nothing to the Deity!"

Science Links Deities
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"Affliction is the good man's shining scene; prosperity conceals his brightest ray; as night to stars, woe lustre gives to man."

Stars Night Men
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"Horace appears in good humor while he censures, and therefore his censure has the more weight, as supposed to proceed from judgment and not from passion."

Passion Weight Judgment
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