Edward Young

Edward Young (1683 - April 5, 1765) was an English poet, best remembered for Night Thoughts.

• In youth, what disappointments of our own making: in age, what disappointments from the nature of things.
  • Source: True Estimate of Human Life

• Like our shadows,
  Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
  • Source: Night Thoughts

• The course of Nature is the art of God.
  • Source: Night Thoughts

• The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
  • Source: Night Thoughts

• Too low they build who build beneath the stars.
  • Source: Night Thoughts

• What we ardently wish, we believe.
  • Source: Night Thoughts