Share this page: Some for renown on scraps of learning dote: And think they grow immortal as they quote. -- The Love of Fame (1785-78), Satire 1, line 89 None think the great unhappy, but the great. -- The Love of Fame (1785-78), Satire 1, line 238 Hot, envious, noisy, proud, the scribbling fry Burn, hiss, and bounce, waste paper, stink, and die. -- The Love of Fame (1785-78), Satire 3, line 65 One to destroy, is murder by the law; And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; To murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame. -- The Love of Fame (1785-78), Satire 7, line 55 How science dwindles, and how volumes swell, How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun. -- The Love of Fame (1785-78), Satire 7, line 96 Procrastination is the thief of time. -- Night Thoughts (1742-45) All men think all men mortal, but themselves. -- Night Thoughts (1742-45) By night an atheist half believes a God. -- Night Thoughts (1742-45) To know the world, not love her, is thy point, She gives but little, nor that little, long. -- Night Thoughts (1742-45) To know ourselves diseased is half the cure. -- Night Thoughts (1742-45) How glorious, then, appears the mind of man, When in it all the stars, and planets, roll. And what it seems, it is: great objects make Great minds. -- Night Thoughts (1742-45) Share this page:

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