Frases de Edward Young

Edward Young , fue un poeta inglés del Prerromanticismo, recordado especialmente por su obra Night Thoughts , uno de los poetas de cementerio. Wikipedia  

✵ 3. julio 1683 – 5. abril 1765
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Frases célebres de Edward Young

“Sed prudentes con la velocidad; un tonto a los cuarenta años es un tonto tontísimo.”

Fuente, Love of Fame: The Universal Passion, in Seven Characteristical Satires (1741), sátira II, línea 282. Edward Young. Kessinger Publishing, 2010. ISBN 1-165-53437-1.

“El ambicioso es un esclavo de lo mucho que desea: el hombre libre es el que nada desea.”

Fuente, Vanesa Gil, Las perlas de Sofía: citas para estudiosos de la vida https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=1G55DgAAQBAJ&pg=PA41&lpg=PA41&dq=El+ambicioso+es+un+esclavo+de+lo+mucho+que+desea:+el+hombre+libre+es+el+que+nada+desea&source=bl&ots=hHDjGK2ypk&sig=w5ZVmrRmmvyiuBRnOhjdqjZsGoU&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiP99HSsPbbAhXGGpAKHSGMAK8Q6AEIRzAK#v=onepage&q=El%20ambicioso%20es%20un%20esclavo%20de%20lo%20mucho%20que%20desea%3A%20el%20hombre%20libre%20es%20el%20que%20nada%20desea&f=false, ISBN-13: 978-1482673968.
Fuente: Las perlas de Sofía https://www.amazon.com.mx/Las-perlas-Sofia-Citas-Estudiosos/dp/1482673967

“Un hombre de treinta años sospecha que él es tonto, está seguro a los cuarenta y modifica sus planes, a los cincuenta se reprocha su infamante demora y se apremia para resolverse en su prudente propósito, con toda su grandeza de ánimo se resuelve y lo resuelve, después muere de todos modos.”

Fuente, Eric Marcus, Manual de pesimista, Editorial Norma, 1994, ISBN 958-04-2639-2, página 84.
Fuente: Manual del pesimista https://lamenteesmaravillosa.com/cincuenta-grandes-verdades-del-manual-del-pesimista/

Edward Young: Frases en inglés

“And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Fuente: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night IV, Line 17.

“Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep!”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Fuente: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night I, Line 1.

“The bell strikes one. We take no note of time
But from its loss.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Fuente: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night I, Line 55.

“To frown at pleasure, and to smile in pain.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Fuente: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night VIII, Line 1045.

“Final Ruin fiercely drives
Her plowshare o'er creation.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Fuente: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night IX, Line 167. Compare Robert Burns, To a Mountain Daisy: "Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives elate / Full on thy bloom".

“He weeps! the falling drop puts out the sun; He sighs! the sigh earth's deep foundation shakes. If in His love so terrible, what then His wrath inflamed?”

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 271.

“An undevout astronomer is mad.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Fuente: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night IX, Line 771.

“On reason build resolve,
that column of true majesty in man.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Fuente: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night I, Line 30.

“Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites,
Hell threatens.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Fuente: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night II, Line 292.

“Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Fuente: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night IV, Line 843.

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

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Fuente: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night II, Line 466.

“Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Fuente: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night III, Line 63.

“Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Fuente: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night II, Line 334.

“Less base the fear of death than fear of life.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Fuente: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night V, Line 441.

“Time elaborately thrown away.”

The Last Day, book i; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“By all means use some time to be alone.”

A slight misquotation of George Herbert "The Church Porch", line 145: "By all means use sometimes to be alone", in The Temple (1633).
Misattributed

“The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave,
The deep damp vault, the darkness and the worm.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Fuente: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night IV, Line 10.

“Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Fuente: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night VI, Line 399.