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• And then he drew a dial from his poke, And looking on it with lack-lustre eye, Says very wisely, "It is ten o'clock
  Thus we may see," quoth he, "how the world wags." -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), As You Like It -- Act ii, Sc....
• While fancy, like the finger of a clock, Runs the great circuit, and is still at home.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book iv, The Winter Evening, Line 118...
• That good diffused may more abundant grow.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Conversation, Line 443...
• The path of sorrow, and that path alone, Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- To an Afflicted Protestant Lady...
• All, soon or late, are doom'd that path to tread.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book xii, Line 31...
• Some must be great. Great offices will have Great talents.
  And God gives to every man The virtue, temper, understanding, taste, That lifts him into life, and lets him fall Just in the niche he was ordain'd to fill....
• He is the freeman whom the truth makes free.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book v, The Winter Morning Walk, Line 733...
• He would not, with a peremptory tone, Assert the nose upon his face his own.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Conversation, Line 121...
• For 't is a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost, We seek it, ere it come to light, In every cranny but the right.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Retired Ca...