Quote #13

Titles are marks of honest men, and wise; The fool or knave that wears a title lies.

More from Edward Young

  1. Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.
  2. They that on glorious ancestors enlarge, Produce their debt instead of their discharge.
  3. The love of praise, howe'er concealed by art, Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.
  4. None think the great unhappy but the great.
  5. When the Law shows her teeth, but dares not bite.
  6. The booby father craves a booby son, And by Heaven's blessing thinks himself undone.
  7. There is something in Poetry beyond Prose-reason; there are Mysteries in it not to be explained, but admired.
  8. Where Nature's end of language is declin'd, And men talk only to conceal the mind.

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