Quote #50

Wishing, of all employments, is the worst.

More from Edward Young

  1. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.
  2. Man wants little, nor that little long.
  3. Man makes a death which Nature never made.
  4. A God all mercy is a God unjust.
  5. 'Tis impious in a good man to be sad
  6. Heaven's Sovereign saves all beings but himself That hideous sight,-a naked human heart.
  7. Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
  8. Lovely in death the beauteous ruin lay; And if in death still lovely, lovelier there; Far lovelier! pity swells the tide of love.

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