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All men think all men mortal, but themselves. (Edward Young (1683-1765), British poet, playwright. repr. In Complete Works, ed. J. Doran (1968). Night 1, l. 424, The Complaint, or Night-Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality (1742-1746).)
A God all mercy is a God unjust. (Edward Young (1683-1765), British poet, playwright. repr. In Complete Works, ed. J. Doran (1968). Night 4, l. 233, The Complaint, or Night-Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality (1742-1746).)
Procrastination is the thief of time. (Edward Young (1683-1765), British poet, playwright. repr. In Complete Works, ed. J. Doran (1968). Night 1, l. 393, The Complaint, or Night-Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality (1742-1746).)
Our birth is nothing but our death begun. (Edward Young (1683-1765), British poet, playwright. repr. In Complete Works, ed. J. Doran (1968). Night 5, l. 718, The Complaint, or Night-Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality (1742-1746).)
Illustrious examples engross, prejudice, and intimidate. They engross our attention, and so prevent a due inspection of ourselves; they prejudice our judgment in favour of their abilities, and so lessen the sense of our own; and they intimidate us with the splendour of their renown, and thus under diffidence bury our strength. (Edward Young (1683-1765), British poet, dramatist. Conjectures on Original Composition (1759).)
Some, for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote. (Edward Young (1683-1765), British poet, playwright. repr. In Complete Works, ed. J. Doran (1968). Love of Fame: The Universal Passion, satire 1, l. 89-90 (1725-1728).)
None think the great unhappy, but the great. (Edward Young (1683-1765), British poet, playwright. repr. In Complete Works, ed. J. Doran (1968). Love of Fame: The Universal Passion, satire 1, l. 238 (1725-1728).)
Life is the desert, life the solitude, Death joins us to the great majority. (Edward Young (1683-1765), British poet, playwright. repr. In Complete Works, ed. J. Doran (1968). Don Alonzo, in The Revenge, act 4, sc. 1 (1721).)
By night an atheist half believes in a God. (Edward Young (1683-1765), British poet, dramatist. "The Complaint: Night V," Night Thoughts (1742-1746).)
