WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 21 Aug 2026 23:09:29 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg Rogers, Samuel – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Rogers, Samuel -- Italy, “Foreign Travel” (1822-28) https://wist.info/rogers-samuel/22464/ https://wist.info/rogers-samuel/22464/#respond Tue, 24 Sep 2013 22:58:48 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=22464 Almost all men are over-anxious. No sooner do they enter the world than they lose that taste for natural and simple pleasures so remarkable in early life. Every hour do they ask themselves what progress they have made in the pursuit of wealth or honor; and on they go as their fathers went before them, till, weary and sick at heart, they look back with a sigh of regret to the golden time of their childhood.


Samuel Rogers (1763–1855) English poet
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