Heaven gives us friends to bless the present scene; Resumes them, to prepare us for the next.
Friendship
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Too low they build who build beneath the stars.
Wisdom
If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be much envy in the world.
Happiness
And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?
Wisdom
He weeps! the falling drop puts out the sun; He sighs! the sigh earth's deep foundation shakes. If in His love so terrible, what then His wrath inflamed?
Love
Dark lattice! letting in eternal day!
Wisdom
Beware what earth calls happiness; beware All joys, but joys that never can expire.
Happiness
Time flies, death urges, knells call, heaven invites, hell threatens!
Life
What ardently we wish, we soon believe.
Wisdom
How empty learning, and how vain is art, But as it mends the life, and guides the heart!
Love
Much learning shows how little mortals know; Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy.
Happiness
Humble love, And not proud reason, keeps the door of heaven; Love finds admission, where proud science fails.
Love
How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful is man!
Wisdom
Patience and resignation are the pillars Of human peace on earth.
Life
We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
Wisdom
Time wasted is existence, used is life.
Life
Be wise to-day; 'tis madness to defer.
Wisdom