Quote #15

None think the great unhappy but the great.

More from Edward Young

  1. They that on glorious ancestors enlarge, Produce their debt instead of their discharge.
  2. The booby father craves a booby son, And by Heaven's blessing thinks himself undone.
  3. Titles are marks of honest men, and wise; The fool or knave that wears a title lies.
  4. Where Nature's end of language is declin'd, And men talk only to conceal the mind.
  5. Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.
  6. Be wise with speed; A fool at forty is a fool indeed.
  7. The love of praise, howe'er concealed by art, Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.
  8. With skill she vibrates her eternal tongue, Forever most divinely in the wrong.

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