Quotes from young edward

He who, superior to the checks of nature, Dares make his life the victim of his reason, Does in some sort that reason deify, And take a flight at heav'n.

The house of laughter makes a house of woe.

When human glory rises high As human glory can; When though the king is truly great, Still greater is the man.

Ah! what is human life? How, like the dial's tardy-moving shade, Day after day slides from us unperceiv'd! The cunning fugitive is swift by stealth; Too subtle is the movement to be seen; Yet soon the hour is up--and we are gone.

Ocean into tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly.

A God all mercy is a God unjust.

If, my lord, the dead alone Are all your care, life is no more a blessing.

A man I knew who lived upon a smile, And well it fed him; he look'd plump and fair

Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun.

Live now; be damn'd hereafter.

O sacred solitude! divine retreat! Choice of the prudent! envy of the great, By thy pure stream, or in thy waving shade, We court fair wisdom, that celestial maid.

He that's ungrateful, has no guilt but one; All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.

Some go to Church, proud humbly to repent, And come back much more guilty than they went: One way they look, another way they steer, Pray to the Gods; but would have Mortals hear; And when their sins they set sincerely down, They'll find that their Religion has been one.

Look into those they call unfortunate, And closer view'd, you'll find they are unwise.

Rising glory occasions the greatest envy, as kindling fires the greatest smoke.

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, wealth may seek us; but wisdom must be sought.

But love, like wine, gives a tumultuous bliss, Heighten'd indeed beyond all mortal pleasures; But mingles pangs and madness in the bowl.

Men are but men; we did not make ourselves.

Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign.