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Affliction is the good man's shining scene; Prosperity conceals his brightest ray; As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man. - Night Thoughts (night IX, l. 415) [Affliction] Amid my list of blessings infinite, Stands this the foremost, "That my heart has bled." - Night Thoughts (night IX, l. 497) [Blessings] When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair. - Night Thoughts (night IX, l. 500) [Pain] Nothing in Nature, much less conscious being, Was e'er created solely for itself. - Night Thoughts (night IX, l. 711) [Nature] One sun by day, by night ten thousand shine; And light us deep into the Deity; How boundless in magnificence and might. - Night Thoughts (night IX, l. 728) [Stars] O how loud It calls devotion! genuine growth of night! Devotion! daughter of Astronomy! As undevout Astronomer is mad. - Night Thoughts (night IX, l. 774) [Astronomy] A God alone can comprehend a God. - Night Thoughts (night IX, l. 835) [God] Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow. - Night Thoughts (night V, l. 1,011) [Death] Ne'er to meet, or ne'er to part, in peace. - Night Thoughts (night V, l. 1,058) [Peace] Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man. - Night Thoughts (night V, l. 158) [Cruelty] This sacred shade and solitude, what is it? 'Tis the felt presence of the Deity, Few are the faults we flatter when alone. - Night Thoughts (night V, l. 172) [Solitude] By night an atheist half believes a God. - Night Thoughts (night V, l. 177) [God] I grant the man is vain who writes for praise. Praise no man e'er deserved who sought no more. - Night Thoughts (night V, l. 3) [Praise] Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . . . Less base the fear of death than fear of life. O Britain! infamous for suicide. - Night Thoughts (night V, l. 436) [Suicide] Less base the fear of death than fear of life. - Night Thoughts (night V, l. 441) [Fear] We bleed, we tremble; we forget, we smile-- The mind turns fool, before the cheek is dry. - Night Thoughts (night V, l. 511) [Folly] Lorenzo! hast thou ever weigh'd a sigh? Or studied the philosophy of tears?-- . . . . Hast thou descended deep into the breast, And seen their source? If not, descend with me, And trace these briny riv'lets to their springs. - Night Thoughts (night V, l. 516) [Tears] A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs. - Night Thoughts (night V, l. 596) [Reflection] Early, bright, transient, chaste, as morning dew She sparkled, was exhal'd, and went to heaven. - Night Thoughts (night V, l. 600) [Death : Proverbs] We see time's furrows on another's brow, . . . . How few themselves in that just mirror see! - Night Thoughts (night V, l. 627) [Time] There is in Poesy a decent pride, Which well becomes her when she speaks to Prose, Her younger sister. - Night Thoughts (night V, l. 64) [Poetry] What folly can be ranker. Like our shadows, Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines. - Night Thoughts (night V, l. 661) [Wishes] While man is growing, life is in decrease. And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb: Our birth is nothing but our death begun. - Night Thoughts (night V, l. 718) [Life] That life is long, which answers life's great end. - Night Thoughts (night V, l. 773) [Life] The man of wisdom is the man of years. - Night Thoughts (night V, l. 775) [Proverbs : Wisdom] Displaying page 15 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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