# “The smiles of the world” by Thomas Brooks

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“Where one thousand are destroyed by the world’s frowns, ten thousand are destroyed
by the world’s smiles.

The world, siren-like, it sings us and sinks us; it kisses us, and betrays us, like
Judas; it kisses us and smites us under the fifth rib, like Joab.

The honours, splendour, and all the glory of this world, are but sweet poisons, 
that will much endanger us, if they do not eternally destroy us.

Ah! the multitude of souls that have surfeited of these sweet baits and died forever.”

–Thomas Brooks, [_Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices_](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1800401671?tag=toletaupanre-20),
in [_The Works of Thomas Brooks, Volume 1_](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1800401671?tag=toletaupanre-20),
ed. Alexander Balloch Grosart (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1866/1980), 1: 63.

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