Some people are more nice than wise.
WILLIAM COWPERSome people are more nice than wise.
WILLIAM COWPERFar happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
WILLIAM COWPERBut still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
WILLIAM COWPERRemorse begets reform.
WILLIAM COWPERHabits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
WILLIAM COWPERO Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
WILLIAM COWPERVariety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
WILLIAM COWPERI pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
WILLIAM COWPERGlory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
WILLIAM COWPERPleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
WILLIAM COWPERThus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
WILLIAM COWPERGrief is itself a medicine.
WILLIAM COWPERTruth is the golden girdle of the globe.
WILLIAM COWPERVice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
WILLIAM COWPERGod made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
WILLIAM COWPERGod made the country, and man made the town.
WILLIAM COWPER