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William Cowper

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

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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."

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"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved."

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"Fun is closely related to Joy -- a sort of emotional froth arising from the play of instinct."

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"Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure."

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"Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution."

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"Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action."

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"Seeking happiness is not the problem. The problem is that we often do not know where and how to find genuine happiness and so make the mistakes that cause suffering for ourselves & others."

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"[Death] is a safety-device because, once Man has fallen, natural immortality would be the one utterly hopeless destiny for him."

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"A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on."

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"Man is created for happiness, that happiness lies in himself, in the satisfaction of simple human needs; and that all unhappiness is due, not to privation but to superfluity."

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"The dogs did bark, the children screamed, Up flew the windows all; And every soul bawled out, Well done! As loud as he could bawl."
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"How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home."
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"God made the country, and man made the town."
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"It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme."
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