William Cowper Quotes
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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She that asks Her dear five hundred friends, contemns them all, And hates their coming.
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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.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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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.
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... she, that will with kittens jest, Should bear a kitten's joke.
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Thieves at home must hang; but he that puts Into his overgorged and bloated purse The wealth of Indian provinces, escapes.
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Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
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Did Charity prevail, the press would prove A vehicle of virtue, truth, and love.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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Some to the fascination of a name, Surrender judgment hoodwinked.
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Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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I am out of humanity's reach.
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Religion, richest favor of the skies.
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Misses! the tale that I relate This lesson seems to carry-- Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry.
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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.
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How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.
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It is a general rule of Judgment, that a mischief should rather be admitted than an inconvenience.
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In the vast, and the minute, we see The unambiguous footsteps of the God, Who gives its lustre to an insect's wing And wheels His throne upon the rolling worlds.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain.
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No traveler e'er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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If a great man struggling with misfortunes is a noble object, a little man that despises them is no contemptible one.