Edward Young , fue un poeta inglés del Prerromanticismo, recordado especialmente por su obra Night Thoughts , uno de los poetas de cementerio. Wikipedia
“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
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/
“The love of praise, howe'er concealed by art,
Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.”
Satire I, l. 51.
Love of Fame (1725-1728)
“And all may do what has by man been done.”
Fuente: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night VI, Line 606.
“A death-bed ’s a detector of the heart.”
Fuente: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night II, Line 641.
“Much learning shows how little mortals know;
Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy.”
Fuente: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night VI, Line 519.
“Where Nature’s end of language is declin’d,
And men talk only to conceal the mind.”
Satire II, l. 207.
Love of Fame (1725-1728)
“All men think all men mortal but themselves.”
Fuente: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night I, Line 424.
“Man wants little, nor that little long.”
Fuente: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night IV, Line 118.
“The house of laughter makes a house of woe.”
Fuente: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night VIII, Line 757.
“There buds the promise of celestial worth.”
The Last Day, book iii; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“By night an atheist half believes a God.”
Fuente: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night V, Line 177.
“Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer.”
Fuente: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night I, Line 390.
“Wishing, of all employments, is the worst.”
Fuente: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night IV, Line 71.
“The course of Nature is the art of God.”
Fuente: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night IX, Line 1267.
“Heaven’s Sovereign saves all beings but himself
That hideous sight,—a naked human heart.”
Fuente: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night III, Line 226.
“A friend is worth all hazards we can run.”
Fuente: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night II, Line 571.
London 1759, p. 28 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=h1IJAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA28&dq=mysteries
Conjectures on Original Composition (1759)