William Cowper Quotes.
An epigram is but a feeble thing – With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.
No one was ever scolded out of their sins.
The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.
No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.
But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?
Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.
Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.
It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one,
Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells
In heads replete with thoughts of other men;
Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells
In heads replete with thoughts of other men;
Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money, Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
A fool must now and then be right, by chance.
Grief is itself a medicine.
The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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.
When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
God made the country, and man made the town.
