William Cowper Quotes

The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away... view

By: William Cowper

O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?.. view

By: William Cowper

Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray... view

By: William Cowper

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose... view

By: William Cowper

Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid... view

By: William Cowper

No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed... view

By: William Cowper

Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees... view

By: William Cowper

O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place... view

By: William Cowper

The dogs did bark, the children screamed, Up flew the windows all.. view

By: William Cowper

The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged... view

By: William Cowper

The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow... view

By: William Cowper

Wisdom is humble that he knows no more... view

By: William Cowper

No one was ever scolded out of their sins... view

By: William Cowper

Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay... view

By: William Cowper

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too... view

By: William Cowper

They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed... view

By: William Cowper

The parson knows enough who knows a Duke... view

By: William Cowper

A fool must now and then be right, by chance... view

By: William Cowper

No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach... view

By: William Cowper

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor... view

By: William Cowper

A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator... view

By: William Cowper

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair... view

By: William Cowper

Absence of occupation is not rest.. view

By: William Cowper

Absence of proof is not proof of absence... view

By: William Cowper

An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting... view

By: William Cowper

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend... view

By: William Cowper

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little.. view

By: William Cowper

Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God... view

By: William Cowper

God made the country, and man made the town... view

By: William Cowper

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm... view

By: William Cowper

How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home... view

By: William Cowper

It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme... view

By: William Cowper

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much.. view

By: William Cowper

Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will... view

By: William Cowper

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books... view

By: William Cowper

Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt... view

By: William Cowper