William Cowper Quotes

He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the wor...

The dearest idol I have known,Whate'er that idol be,Help me to tear it from thy throne,And worship o...

My fugitive years are all hasting away,And I must ere long lie as lowly as they,With a turf on my br...

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

Religion if in heavenly truths attired Needs only to be seen to be admired.

Happiness depends as Nature shows less on exterior things than most suppose.

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

Such stuff the world is made of.

A glory gilds the sacred page Majestic like the sun It gives a light to every age It gives but b...

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little we owe it everything. The only true happiness c...

We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure nor in reality more secure tha...

Man disavows, and Deity disowns me;Hell might afford my miseries a shelter;Therefore Hell keeps her ...

God moves in mysterious waysHis wonders to performs

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Grief is itself a med'cine.

What is there in the vale of life Half so delightful as a wife When Friendship love and peace combi...

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

If the world like it not, so much the worse for them.

Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast,Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round,And, whil...

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

God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform He plants his footsteps in the sea And rides u...

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

There is in souls a sympathy with sounds:And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleasedWith melting a...

God made the country and man made the town.

Happiness depends as Nature shows Less on exterior things than most suppose.

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

How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home!

Absence of occupation is not rest A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

Remorse begets reform.

Beware of desp'rate steps the darkest day lived till tomorrow will have pass'd away.

I praise the Frenchman his remark was shrewd - "How sweet how passing sweet is solitude." But gr...

Restraining prayer we cease to fight Prayer keeps the Christian's armor bright And Satan trembles...

The town is man's world but this (country life) is of God.

A fool must now and then be right by chance.

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

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

No traveler e'er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.

Variety's the very spice of life That gives it all its flavour.

A moral sensible and well-bred man Will not affront me and no other can.

The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow.

When we don't pray, we quit the fight. Prayer keeps the Christian's armor bright. And Satan trembles...