Too low they build who build below the skies.
More Quotes from Edward Young:
Where Nature's end of language is declin'd, And men talk only to conceal the mind.Edward Young
Devotion daughter of astronomy An undevout astronomer is mad.
Edward Young
Think naught a trifle, though it small appear Small sands the mountain, moments make the year, And trifles life.
Edward Young
Can wealth give happiness Look round and see What gay distress what splendid misery Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, The mind annihilates, and calls for more.
Edward Young
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.
Edward Young
O sacred solitude divine retreat Choice of the prudent envy of the great By thy pure stream, or in thy waving shade, We court fair wisdom, that celestial maid.
Edward Young
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
More than any other in Western Europe, Britain remains a country where a traveler has to think twice before indulging in the ordinary food of ordinary people.Joseph Lelyveld
Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.
Fridtjof Nansen
Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.
Prince Philip