Quotes by "Edward Young"

Too low they build, who build beneath the stars.

By night an atheist half-believes in God.

None think the great unhappy, but the great.

For me, happiness came from prayer to a kindly God, faith in a kindly God, love for my fellow man, and doing the very best I could every day of my life. I had looked for happiness in fast living, but it was not there. I tried to find it in money, but it was not there, either. But when I placed myself in tune with what I believe to be fundamental truths of life, when I began to develop my limited ability, to rid my mind of all kinds of tangled thoughts and fill it with zeal and courage and love, when I gave myself a chance by treating myself decently and sensibly, I began to feel the stimulating, warm glow of happiness.

The course of nature is the art of God.

None think the great unhappy but the great.

A foe to God was never true friend to man

The first sure symptom of a mind in health Is rest of heart and pleasure felt at home.

They only babble who practise not reflection.

The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.

How blessings brighten as they take their flight.

An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.

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

The man that makes a character, makes foes.

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

A friend is worth all hazards we can run.

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform.

Truth never was indebted to a lie.

A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.

Wonder is involuntary praise.