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The blood will follow where the knife is driven,
The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear.
In youth, what disappointments of our own making: in age, what disappointments from the nature of things.
The man that makes a character makes foes.
Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.
Night-Thoughts (1742)
By night an atheist half believes in God.
Night Thoughts (1743)
Too low they build who build beneath the stars.
And friend received with thumps upon the back.
Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
Night-Thoughts (1742)
To frown at pleasure, and to smile in pain.
Night-Thoughts (1742)
There buds the promise of celestial worth.
As Love alone can exquisitely bless,
Love only feels the marvellous of pain;
Opens new veins of torture in the soul,
And wakes the nerve where agonies are born.
The Brothers (1753)
Souls made of fire, and children of the sun,
With whom revenge is virtue.
In records that defy the tooth of time.
Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new * * * is neither strong nor pure.
Hope, like a cordial, innocent, though strong,
Man's heart, at once, inspirits, and serenes,
Nor makes him pay his wisdom for his joys.
That life is long which answers life's great end.
Night-Thoughts (1742)
One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven.
Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
Night-Thoughts (1742)
Great let me call him, for he conquered me.
The Revenge (1721)
They most the world enjoy who least admire.