The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
More Quotes from William Cowper:
Doing good, disinterested good, is not our trade.William Cowper
Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else, Like kindred drops, been mingled into one.
William Cowper
Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
William Cowper
He that holds fast the golden mean,And lives contently betweenThe little and the great,Feels not the wants that pinch the poor,Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door.
William Cowper
Thou god of our idolatry, the press. . . .Thou fountain, at which drink the good and wiseThou ever-bubbling spring of endless liesLike Eden's dread probationary tree,Knowledge of good and evil is from thee.
William Cowper
Dejection of spirits, which may have prevented many a man from becoming an author, made me one. I find constant employment necessary, and therefore take care to be constantly employed. . . . When I can find no other occupation, I think and when I think, I am very apt to do it in rhyme.
William Cowper
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