5 Edward Young Quotes on Character

Edward Young quotes on character

13. Titles are marks of honest men, and wise; The fool or knave that wears a title lies.

33. Ah, how unjust to Nature and himself Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man!

42. A death-bed 's a detector of the heart.

43. Virtue alone has majesty in death.

64. Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself. Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids; Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall.