Quote #66
Much learning shows how little mortals know; Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy.
More from Edward Young
- Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!
- And all may do what has by man been done.
- 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 that blushes is not quite a brute.
- Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise.
- What ardently we wish we soon believe.
- Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.
- Too low they build who build beneath the stars.