Quote #45
Beautiful as sweet! And young as beautiful! and soft as young! And gay as soft! and innocent as gay.
More from Edward Young
- Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other's heel.
- Lovely in death the beauteous ruin lay; And if in death still lovely, lovelier there; Far lovelier! pity swells the tide of love.
- Virtue alone has majesty in death.
- Heaven's Sovereign saves all beings but himself That hideous sight,-a naked human heart.
- A death-bed 's a detector of the heart.
- Man makes a death which Nature never made.
- The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.
- And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.