Edward Young

The weak have remedies, the wise have joys superior wisdom is superior bliss…

By all means use some time to be alone…

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

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom…

Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they…

Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take…

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to…

One to destroy, is murder by the law and gibbets keep the lifted hand in…

The future… seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the…

The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her…

Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die…

Virtue alone has majesty in death…

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

Less base the fear of death than fear of life…

Friendship’s the wine of life: but friendship new… is neither strong nor pure…