Edward Young citáty

„Údiv je bezděčná chvála.“

„Na každém trní rozkošná moudrost roste, v každém potůčku sladké poučení plyne.“

„Slovo bylo člověku dáno proto, aby odhalil svou myšlenku.“

“And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.”

“Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep!”

“The bell strikes one. We take no note of time
But from its loss.”

“Affliction is a good man's shining time.”

“A foe to God was never true friend to man”

“To frown at pleasure, and to smile in pain.”

“Final Ruin fiercely drives
Her plowshare o'er creation.”

“He weeps! the falling drop puts out the sun; He sighs! the sigh earth's deep foundation shakes. If in His love so terrible, what then His wrath inflamed?”

“One to destroy, is murder by the law;
And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe;
To murder thousands takes a specious name,
War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame.”

“An undevout astronomer is mad.”

“The booby father craves a booby son,
And by Heaven’s blessing thinks himself undone.”

“On reason build resolve,
that column of true majesty in man.”

“Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites,
Hell threatens.”

“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.”

“Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.”

“As Love alone can exquisitely bless,
Love only feels the marvellous of pain;
Opens new veins of torture in the soul,
And wakes the nerve where agonies are born.”

“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.”

“There is something in Poetry beyond Prose-reason; there are Mysteries in it not to be explained, but admired.”

“Thoughts shut up want air,
And spoil, like bales unopen’d to the sun.”

“Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.”

“Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile.”

“While man is growing, life is in decrease;
And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb.
Our birth is nothing but our death begun.”

“With skill she vibrates her eternal tongue,
Forever most divinely in the wrong.”

“Be wise with speed;
A fool at forty is a fool indeed.”

“Less base the fear of death than fear of life.”

“Time elaborately thrown away.”

“By all means use some time to be alone.”

“The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave,
The deep damp vault, the darkness and the worm.”

“Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!”