Quote #63
Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise.
More from Edward Young
- Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.
- Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself. Virtu…
- The man of wisdom is the man of years.
- Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!
- While man is growing, life is in decrease; And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb. Our birth is nothing but our death begun.
- Much learning shows how little mortals know; Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy.
- Like our shadows, Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
- And all may do what has by man been done.