“Still ending, and beginning still.”

— William Cowper, The Task (1785), Book III

About William Cowper

1731 – 1800

English poet and hymnwriter, author of "The Task".

“The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the lands where sorrow is unknown.”

“Domestic happiness, thou only bliss of Paradise that has surviv'd the fall!”

“He has no hope that never had a fear.”

“I am not now that which I have been.”

“Indeed, life would be unliveable, even if I did not notice the change.”

“Progress is / The law of life: man is not Man as yet.”

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“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”

“Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent.”