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Hence Heaven looks down on earth with all her eyes.
When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.
How blessings brighten as they take their flight!
Night-Thoughts (1742)
But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.
Joys season'd high, and tasting strong of guilt.
He mourns the dead who lives as they desire.
Night-Thoughts (1742)
None think the great unhappy but the great.
Love of Fame (1725)
And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.
Night-Thoughts (1742)
The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
Night-Thoughts (1742)
Man makes a death which Nature never made.
Night-Thoughts (1742)
Wishing, of all employments, is the worst.
Night-Thoughts (1742)
Ne'er to meet, or ne'er to part, is peace.
A friend is worth all hazards we can run.
Night-Thoughts (1742)
Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise.
Night-Thoughts (1742)
Men should press forward, in fame's glorious chase;
Nobles look backward, and so lose the race.
Even the best must own
Patience and resignation are the pillars
Of human peace on earth.
The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay,
Provides a home from which to run away.
Who, for the poor renown of being smart,
Would leave a sting within a brother's heart?
Humble love,
And not proud reason, keeps the door of heaven;
Love finds admission, where proud science fails.
Titles are marks of honest men, and wise;
The fool or knave that wears a title lies.
Love of Fame (1725)