He that holds fast the golden mean,
And lives contentedly between
The little and the great,
Feels not the wants that pinch the poor,
Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800)
-- Translation of Horace, Book ii, Ode x
And lives contentedly between
The little and the great,
Feels not the wants that pinch the poor,
Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800)
-- Translation of Horace, Book ii, Ode x
Related:
- Have hung
My dank and dropping weeds
To the stern god of sea.
John Milton (1608-1674) -- Translation of Horace,... - Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor;
And with Thee rich,
take what Thou wilt away. -- William Cowper (1731... - Praise enough
To fill the ambition of a private man,
That Chatham's language was his mother tongue. --... - Some must be great. Great offices will have
Great talents.
And God gives to every man The virtue, temper, understanding... - The only way for a rich man to be healthy is, by exercise and abstinence,
to live as if he were poor. -- Sir William... - The difference between a rich man and a poor man is this:
the former eats when he pleases, the latter when he... - Hence, ye profane! I hate ye all,
Both the great vulgar and the small.
Abraham Cowley (1618-1667) -- Horace, Book iii, Ode... - He sees that this great roundabout
The world, with all its motley rout,
Church, army, physic, law, Its customs and its businesses... - Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call to-day his own;
He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow, do thy worst...
