“Dejection of spirits, which may have prevented many a man from becoming an author, made me one. I find constant employment necessary, and therefore take care to be constantly employed. . . . When I can find no other occupation, I think; and when I think, I am very apt to do it in rhyme.” ThinkingMenMayMadeI CanCareSpiritBecomingConstantTake CareEmploymentOccupationRhymeEmployed Book:The Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life ; Six Engravings on Steel Source: The Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life ; Six Engravings on Steel
“It is so natural for us to consider our presence as indispensable in the world, so long as we have much to do in it, that the wisdom of retiring wholly from employments in advanced life may be questioned. Certainly, he who does so is in danger of finding, before long, that he has only given up the occupation to which he has been accustomed, for the new business of calculating the period of his decease.” WorldMayLongDoeHas BeensGivenNaturalDangerPeriodsFindingsEmploymentOccupationRetirementRetiringIndispensableAccustomedGiven UpCalculatingNew Business Author:Christian Nestell Bovee