William Cowper Life Quotations

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

Men deal with life as children with their play,Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.

Faults in the life breed errors in the brain,And these, reciprocally, those again.

A life all turbulence and noise may seem,To him that leads it, wise and to be praised;But wisdom is a pearl with most successSought in still water, and beneath clear skies.

Oh that those lips had language! Life has passed With me but roughly since I heard thee last

The life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Our love is principle, and has its root In reason, is judicious, manly, free.

Still ending, and beginning still.

What is it but a map of busy life, Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns?

Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.