William Cowper Quotes
"O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?"
- William Cowper
(Related: Heart, Man, Popular, Proof)
"Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray."
- William Cowper
(Related: Instinct, Man, Mistakes)
"Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose."
- William Cowper
(Related: Happiness, Nature)
"Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid."
- William Cowper
(Related: Pleasure, Remorse)
"No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed."
- William Cowper
(Related: Rest, World)
"Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees."
- William Cowper
(Related: Satan)
"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."
- William Cowper
(Related: Solitude)
"The dogs did bark, the children screamed, Up flew the windows all; And every soul bawled out, Well done! As loud as he could bawl."
- William Cowper
(Related: Soul, Children, Dogs, Windows)
"The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged."
- William Cowper
(Related: Change, Earth, Man, Mind, Novelty)
"The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow."
- William Cowper
"Wisdom is humble that he knows no more."
- William Cowper
(Related: Wisdom)
"No one was ever scolded out of their sins."
- William Cowper
"Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay."
- William Cowper
(Related: Men, Positive, Judgment)
"Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too."
- William Cowper
(Related: Garden)
"They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed."
- William Cowper
(Related: Wisdom, Truth)
"The parson knows enough who knows a Duke."
- William Cowper
"A fool must now and then be right, by chance."
- William Cowper
(Related: Chance, Fool, Now, Right)
"No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach."
- William Cowper
(Related: Man)
"Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor."
- William Cowper
(Related: Life, Variety)
"A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator."
- William Cowper
(Related: Man, Self)
"Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair."
- William Cowper
(Related: Love, Death, Hope, Absence, Despair)
"Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed."
- William Cowper
(Related: Absence, Mind, Occupation, Rest)
"Absence of proof is not proof of absence."
- William Cowper
(Related: Absence, Proof)
"An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting."
- 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."
- William Cowper
(Related: Friend, Ceremony, Fight, Shadows, Worth)
"Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose."
- William Cowper
(Related: Happiness, Life, Purpose, Bargain, Existence)
"Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God."
- William Cowper
(Related: Nature, God, Cause, Effect, Name)
"God made the country, and man made the town."
- William Cowper
(Related: God, Country, Man)
"God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm."
- William Cowper
(Related: God, Footsteps, Plants, Sea, Wonders)
"How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home."
- William Cowper
(Related: Home)
"It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme."
- William Cowper
(Related: Blood)
"Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more."
- William Cowper
(Related: Wisdom, Knowledge)
"Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will."
- William Cowper
(Related: God, Heart, Compassion, Man, May, Will)
"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."
- William Cowper
(Related: Heart, Books, Learning, May, Meditation, Moments)
"Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt."
- William Cowper
(Related: Glory, Guilt, Principles, Shame)