Night Thoughts Quotes
No.	Quotation	Subject	Source
1	Young, gay, and fortunate!" Each yields a theme. And, first, thy youth: what says it to gray hairs? Narcissa, I'm become thy pupil now;-- Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven.	Youth	Night Thoughts
2	Wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.	Wisdom	Night Thoughts
3	The weak have remedies, the wise have joys, Superior wisdom is superior bliss.	Wisdom	Night Thoughts
4	As eddies draw things frivolous and light, How is man's heart by vanity drawn in!	Vanity	Night Thoughts
5	Virtue, not rolling suns, the mind matures, That life is long, which answers life's great end. The time that bears no fruit, deserves no name.	Virtue	Night Thoughts
6	Pygmies are pygmies still, though perched on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself: Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids; Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall.	Virtue	Night Thoughts
7	In human hearts what bolder thoughts can rise, Than man's presumption on to-morrow's dawn! Where is to-morrow?	Tomorrow	Night Thoughts
8	Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy Sleep! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where fortune smiles; the wretched he forsakes: Swift on his downy pinions flies from woe, And lights on lids unsullied with a tear.	Sleep	Night Thoughts
9	Some for hard masters, broken under arms, In battle lopt away, with half their limbs, Beg bitter bread thro' realms their valor saved.	Soldier	Night Thoughts
10	O! lost to virtue, lost to manly thought, Lost to the noble, sallies of the soul! Who think it solitude to be alone.	Solitude	Night Thoughts

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