William Cowper Quotes
-
Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.
-
Religion Caesar never knew Thy posterity shall sway, Where his eagles never flew, None as invincible as they.
-
England, with all thy faults I love thee still, My country!
-
God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm. Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs, And works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head. Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
-
Blest be the art that can immortalize,--the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it.
-
Call'd to the temple of impure delight He that abstains, and he alone, does right. If a wish wander that way, call it home; He cannot long be safe whose wishes roam.
-
Admirals extolled for standing still, or doing nothing with a deal of skill.
-
How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.
-
... she, that will with kittens jest, Should bear a kitten's joke.
-
Some to the fascination of a name, Surrender judgment hoodwinked.
-
Religion does not censure or exclude Unnumbered pleasures, harmlessly pursued.
-
But, oh, Thou bounteous Giver of all good, Thou art, of all Thy gifts, Thyself thy crown!
-
A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
-
He that negotiates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the grand concerns Of judgment and of mercy, should beware Of lightness in his speech.
-
If a great man struggling with misfortunes is a noble object, a little man that despises them is no contemptible one.
-
Thieves at home must hang; but he that puts Into his overgorged and bloated purse The wealth of Indian provinces, escapes.
-
Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
-
Time, as he passes us, has a dove's wing, Unsoil'd, and swift, and of a silken sound.
-
He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
-
A noisy man is always in the right.
-
There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
-
Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts.
-
It is a general rule of Judgment, that a mischief should rather be admitted than an inconvenience.
-
Unmissed but by his dogs and by his groom.