Young, Edward

Conjectures on Original Composition


• Illustrious examples engross, prejudice, and intimidate. They engross our attention, and so prevent ...
Don Alonzo, in The Revenge


• Life is the desert, life the solitude,
  Death joins us to the great majority.
Love of Fame: The Universal Passion


• Some, for renown, on scraps of learning dote,
  And think they grow immortal as they quote.
• None think the great unhappy, but the great.
Night 1


• Procrastination is the thief of time.
• All men think all men mortal, but themselves.
Night 4


• A God all mercy is a God unjust.
Night 5


• Our birth is nothing but our death begun.
“The Complaint: Night V”


• By night an atheist half believes in a God.
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