William Cowper Quotes on Life
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Shine by the side of every path we tread With such a luster, he that runs may read.
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Thus happiness depends, as Nature shows, Less on exterior things than most suppose.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavour.
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From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up.
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With spots quadrangular of diamond form, Ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, And spades, the emblems of untimely graves.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.