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Body and soul, like peevish man and wife, United jar, and yet are loth to part. - Night Thoughts (night II, l. 175) [Matrimony] On all important time, thro' ev'ry age, Tho' much, and warm, the wise have urged; the man Is yet unborn, who duly weighs an hour, "I've lost a day"--the prince who nobly cried Had been an emperor without his crown; Of Rome? say rather, lord of human race. - Night Thoughts (night II, l. 180) [Day] The spirit walks of every day deceased. - Night Thoughts (night II, l. 180) [Day] The man who consecrates his hours By vig'rous effort and an honest aim, At once he draws the sting of life and death; He walks with nature and her paths are peace. - Night Thoughts (night II, l. 187) [Character] Has death his fopperies? - Night Thoughts (night II, l. 231) [Foppery] He mourns the dead who lives as they desire. - Night Thoughts (night II, l. 24) [Mourning] In leaves, more durable than leaves of brass, Writes our whole history. - Night Thoughts (night II, l. 275) [Time] Time flies, Death urges, knells call, Heaven invites, Hell threatens. - Night Thoughts (night II, l. 291) [Danger] That awful independent on to-morrow! Whose work is done; who triumphs in the past; Whose yesterdays look backward with a smile Nor, like the Parthian, wound him as they fly. - Night Thoughts (night II, l. 322) [Past] 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours; And ask them what report they bore to heaven: And how they might have borne more welcome news. - Night Thoughts (night II, l. 376) [Self-examination] Youth is not rich in time; it may be poor; Part with it as with money, sparing; pay No moment but in purchase of its worth, And what it's worth, ask death-beds; they can tell. - Night Thoughts (night II, l. 47) [Youth] Wisdom, though richer than Peruvian mines, And sweeter than the sweet ambrosial hive, What is she, but the means of happiness? That unobtain'd, than folly more a fool. - Night Thoughts (night II, l. 496) [Wisdom] Who can take Death's portrait? The tyrant never sat. - Night Thoughts (night II, l. 52) [Death] A friend is worth all hazards we can run. - Night Thoughts (night II, l. 571) [Friends] Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new . . . is neither strong nor pure. - Night Thoughts (night II, l. 582) [Friendship] Like birds, whose beauties languish half concealed, Till, mounted on the wing, their glossy plumes Expanded, shine with azure, green and gold; How blessings brighten as they take their flight. - Night Thoughts (night II, l. 589) [Blessings] The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileged beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven. - Night Thoughts (night II, l. 633) [Death] A death-bed's a detector of the heart. - Night Thoughts (night II, l. 641) [Death] Who does the best that circumstance allows, Does well, acts nobly, angels could no more. - Night Thoughts (night II, l. 90) [Ability : Circumstance : Goodness] To climb life's worn, heavy wheel Which draws up nothing new. - Night Thoughts (night III) [Folly] Lovely in death the beauteous ruin lay; And if in death still lovely, lovelier there; Far lovelier! pity swells the tide of love. - Night Thoughts (night III, l. 104) [Death] Heaven's Sovereign saves all beings but himself, That hideous sight, a naked human heart. - Night Thoughts (night III, l. 226) [Heart] Like lavish ancestors, his earlier years Have disinherited his future hours, Which starve on orts, and glean their former field. - Night Thoughts (night III, l. 310) [Ancestry] Death is the crown of life; Were death denyed, poor man would live in vain; Were death denyed, to live would not be life; Were death denyed, ev'n fools would wish to die. - Night Thoughts (night III, l. 523) [Death] O! lost to virtue, lost to manly thought, Lost to the noble sallies of the soul! Who think it solitude to be alone. - Night Thoughts (night III, l. 6) [Solitude] Displaying page 13 of 18 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 [13] 14 15 16 17 18
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