
“To frown at pleasure, and to smile in pain.”
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night VIII, Line 1045.
“To frown at pleasure, and to smile in pain.”
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night VIII, Line 1045.
“How do you do that?” Mennis asked, frowning.
“What?”
“Smile so much.”
“Oh, I’m just a happy person.”
Source: The Final Empire
“And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time’s malleability.”
Source: The Sense of an Ending
“When Fortune smiles, I smile to think
How quickly she will frown.”
Source: Content and Rich, Line 63; p. 59.
“Behind a frowning providence
He hides a smiling face.”
No. 35, "Light Shining out of Darkness".
Olney Hymns (1779)