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Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.

William Cowper
Life, Giving, Inspire
The Task bk. 2 "The Timepiece" l. 606 (1785) See Behn 1

There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.

William Cowper
Men, Giving, Grace
William Cowper, James Thomson (1832). “The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson”, p.114

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 ordained to fill.

William Cowper
Fall, Men, Giving
William Cowper, James Thomson (1832). “The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson”, p.85

Sacred interpreter of human thought, How few respect or use thee as they ought! But all shall give account of every wrong, Who dare dishonor or defile the tongue; Who prostitute it in the cause of vice, Or sell their glory at a market-price!

William Cowper
Giving, Vices, Use
William Cowper, James Thomson (1832). “The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson”, p.40

The Frenchman, easy, debonair, and brisk, Give him his lass, his fiddle, and his frisk, Is always happy, reign whoever may, And laughs the sense of mis'ry far away.

William Cowper
Giving, Laughing, May
William Cowper (1866). “The Poetical Works of William Cowper”, p.26

Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appear'd, And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard: To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give a Milton birth, ask'd ages more.

William Cowper
Swans, Giving, Age
William Cowper, Henry Stebbing, Giovanni Battista Andreini (1854). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper, Esq: Including the Hymns and Translations from Madame Guion, Milton, Etc., and Adam; a Sacred Drama”, p.40

In the vast, and the minute, we see The unambiguous footsteps of the God, Who gives its lustre to an insect's wing And wheels His throne upon the rolling worlds.

William Cowper
Wings, Giving, Rolling
William Cowper (1855). “The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems : Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence”, p.594

Without one friend, above all foes, Britannia gives the world repose.

William Cowper
Giving, World, England
William Cowper (1855). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life, and Critical Notice of His Writings. Eight Engravings on Steel”, p.370

Nature, exerting an unwearied power, Forms, opens, and gives scent to every flower; Spreads the fresh verdure of the field, and leads The dancing Naiads through the dewy meads.

William Cowper
Nature, Flower, Giving
William Cowper (1855). “The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings”, p.14

Heaven speed the canvas, gallantly unfurl'd, To furnish and accommodate a world, To give the Pole the produce of the sun, And knit the unsocial climates into one.

William Cowper
Giving, Heaven, Climate
William Cowper (1855). “The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings”, p.71

Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor; And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away.

William Cowper
Giving, Contentment, Rich
William Cowper (1854). “Poetical works of William Cowper (with selections from the works of Robert Lloyd [and others]) ed. by R. Bell”, p.58

The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort, Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style, Give truth a lustre, and make wisdom smile.

William Cowper
Sports, Reading, Giving
William Cowper (1855). “The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings”, p.113

All zeal for a reform, that gives offence To peace and charity, is mere pretence.

William Cowper
Giving, Reform, Charity
William Cowper (1872). “Table talk, Truth, Expostulation, Hope, Charity, and other poems”, p.108

A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic like the sun, It gives a light to every age, It gives, but borrows none.

William Cowper
Light, Giving, Age
William Cowper (1855). “The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems : Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence”, p.677

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