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One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven. - Night Thoughts (night V, l. 838) [Heaven] Sure as night follows day, Death treads in Pleasure's footsteps round the world, When pleasure treads the paths which Reason shuns. - Night Thoughts (night V, l. 863) [Pleasure] Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How comet-like, it threatens while it shines. - Night Thoughts (night V, l. 915) [Prosperity] Virtue alone outbuilds the pyramids: Her monuments shall last, when Egypt's fall. - Night Thoughts (night VI, l. 314) [Virtue] Pride, like hooded hawks, in darkness soars From blindness bold, and towering to the skies. - Night Thoughts (night VI, l. 324) [Pride] Much learning shows how little mortals know: Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy. - Night Thoughts (night VI, l. 519) [Learning : Wealth] 'Tis immortality, 'tis that alone, Amid life's pains, abasements, emptiness, The soul can comfort, elevate, and fill. That only, and that amply this performs. - Night Thoughts (night VI, l. 573) [Immortality] And all may do what has by man been done. - Night Thoughts (night VI, l. 611) [Action] Shall man alone, for whom all else revives, No resurrection know? Shall man alone, Imperial man! be sown in barren ground, Less privileged than grain, on which he feeds? - Night Thoughts (night VI, l. 704) [Resurrection] We nothing know, but what is marvellous; Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe. - Night Thoughts (night VII) [Wonder] Hence Heaven looks down on earth with all her eyes. - Night Thoughts (night VII, l. 1,103) [Stars] Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live forever? Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all? This is a miracle; and that no more. - Night Thoughts (night VII, l. 1,396) [Life] Hope of all passions, most befriends us here. - Night Thoughts (night VII, l. 1,470) [Hope] Hope, like a cordial, innocent, though strong, Man's heart, at once, inspirits, and serenes; Nor makes him pay his wisdom for his joys. - Night Thoughts (night VII, l. 1,514) [Hope] And what is reason? Be she thus defined: Reason is upright stature in the soul. - Night Thoughts (night VII, l. 1,526) [Reason] But if man loses all, when life is lost, He lives a coward, or a fool expires. A daring infidel (and such there are, From pride, example, lucre, rage, revenge, Or pure heroical defect of thought), Of all earth's madmen, most deserves a chain. - Night Thoughts (night VII, l. 199) [Religion] Fame is the shade of immortality, And in itself a shadow. Soon as caught, Contemn'd; it shrinks to nothing in the grasp. - Night Thoughts (night VII, l. 363) [Fame] Poor in abundance, famish'd at a feast. - Night Thoughts (night VII, l. 44) [Discontent] The man that blushes is not quite a brute. - Night Thoughts (night VII, l. 496) [Blushes] Reason progressive, Instinct is complete; Swift instinct leaps; slow reason feebly climbs. Brutes soon their zenith reach. * * * In ages they no more Could know, do, covet or enjoy. - Night Thoughts (night VII, l. 81) [Reason] Once I beheld a sun, a sun which gilt That sable cloud, and turned it all to gold. - Night Thoughts (night VII, l. 815) [Clouds] Were man to live coeval with the sun, The patriarch-pupil would be learning still. - Night Thoughts (night VII, l. 86) [Learning] A land of levity is a land of guilt. - Night Thoughts (night VII, preface) [Guilt] What ardently we wish, we soon believe. - Night Thoughts (night VII, pt. II, l. 1311) [Belief] True happiness ne'er entered at an eye; True happiness resides in things unseen. - Night Thoughts (night VIII, l. 1,021) [Happiness] Displaying page 16 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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