A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
William Cowper (1731 - 1800)
Contributed by: Zaady
Lights of the world, and stars of human race.
Source: The Progress of Error. Line 97.
Lord, it is my chief complaint, That my love is weak and faint; Yet I love thee and adore, Oh for grace to love thee more!
Source: Olney Hymns
Low ambition and the thirst of praise.
Source: Table Talk. Line 591.
Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ, The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
Source: Table Talk. Line 542.
The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
England, with all thy faults I love thee still, My country!
Source: The Task, book ii. The Timepiece, line 206.
A fool must now and then be right - by chance.
Source: Conversation. Line 96.
Freedom hath a thousand charms to show, That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.
Source: Table Talk. Line 260.
Friends, books, a garden, and perhaps his pen, Delightful industry enjoy'd at home, And Nature, in her cultivated trim Dress'd to his taste, inviting him abroad - Can he want occupation who has these?
Source: The Task, 1780
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