Edward Young
15 quotations
Virtue alone has majesty in death.
All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.
Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
The purpose firm is equal to the deed.
Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
Those who build beneath the stars build too low.
None think the great unhappy, but the great.
Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.
Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
By night an atheist half believes in God.
Some, for renown, on scraps of learning dote, and think they grow immortal as they quote.
To leave a sting within a brother's heart.
Our birth is nothing but our death begun.
The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
The man that makes a character, makes foes.