Top 180 Edward Young Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled.”

— Edward Young

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2. “We are all born originals – why is it so many of us die copies?”

— Edward Young

3. “Procrastination is the thief of time.”

— Edward Young

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4. “At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.”

— Edward Young

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5. “Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue.”

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6. “Be wise today; ’tis madness to defer. Next day the fatal precedent will plead; thus on, til wisdom is pushed our of life.”

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7. “Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform and mortal men lay hold on heaven.”

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8. “The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.”

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9. “Mine is the night, with all her stars.”

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10. “Born Originals, how comes it to pass that we die Copies?”

— Edward Young

11. “Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.”

— Edward Young

12. “Be wise to-day; ’t is madness to defer.”

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13. “However smothered under former negligence, or scattered through the dull, dark mass of common thoughts – let thy genius rise as the sun from chaos.”

— Edward Young

14. “Friendship’s the wine of life.”

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15. “Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed: Who does the best his circumstance allows Does well, acts nobly; angels could no more.”

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16. “Tired nature’s sweet restorer, balmy sleep! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where fortune smiles; the wretched he forsakes.”

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

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18. “How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, how complicate, how wonderful is man! Distinguished link in being’s endless chain! Midway from nothing to the Deity! Dim miniature of greatness absolute! An heir of glory! A frail child of dust! Helpless immortal! Insect infinite! A worm! A God!”

— Edward Young

19. “Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.”

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20. “Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.”

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21. “Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o’er a slumbering world.”

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22. “The bell strikes One. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours.”

— Edward Young

23. “Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven.”

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24. “All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.”

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25. “Live now; be damn’d hereafter.”

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26. “It calls Devotion! genuine growth of night! Devotion! Daughter of Astronomy! An undevout astronomer is mad!”

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27. “The soul of man was made to walk the skies.”

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28. “The man who consecrates his hours by vigorous effort, and an honest aim, at once he draws the sting of life and Death; he walks with nature; and her paths are peace.”

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29. “The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.”

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30. “Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread.”

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31. “As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.”

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32. “Truth never was indebted to a lie.”

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33. “But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.”

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34. “Think naught a trifle, though it small appear; Small stands the mountain, moments make the year, and trifles life.”

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35. “Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.”

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36. “On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.”

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37. “Too low they build who build below the skies.”

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38. “Affliction is a good man’s shining time.”

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39. “Sweet instinct leaps; slow reason feebly climbs.”

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

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41. “A tardy vengeance shares the tyrant’s guilt.”

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42. “Amid my list of blessings infinite, stands this the foremost, “that my heart has bled.””

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43. “Insatiate archer! could not one suffice? Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn.”

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44. “As soon as we have found the key of life, it opens the gates of death.”

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45. “Affliction is the good man’s shining scene; prosperity conceals his brightest ray; as night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.”

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46. “A man of pleasure is a man of pains.”

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47. “He that’s ungrateful has no guilt but one; All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.”

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48. “Ocean into tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly.”

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49. “Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.”

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50. “The spider’s most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man’s tender tie On earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze.”

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