Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. — William Cowper
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William Cowper : English Poet
Born: November 26, 1731
Died: April 25, 1800
If you owe the bank $100 that’s your problem. If you owe the…
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in pract…
Part of the bargain of being alive is that one takes a chanc…
Britain loves a bargain, but you don’t get good, lasting arc…
Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a…
I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing…
If you owe the bank $100 that’s your problem. If you owe the…
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in pract…
Part of the bargain of being alive is that one takes a chanc…
Britain loves a bargain, but you don’t get good, lasting arc…
Modern medicine has presented us with a Faustian bargain: Ou…
Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a…
I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing…
An ‘unemployed’ existence is a worse negation of life than d…
Respect is what we owe; love, what we give. Philip James Bai…
As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new – and…
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very…
I don’t really talk about my personal life. It’s a strange a…
No one succeeds without effort… Those who succeed owe thei…
I grew up in a family of strong women and I owe any capacity…
Tennis doesn’t owe me anything. Tennis is one of the fairest…
Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter. …
We owe it to the victims of the suicide bombers who struck L…
I’ve never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my hea…
We owe a lot to Thomas Edison – if it wasn’t for him, we’d b…
We owe our World War II veterans – and all our veterans – a …
