William Cowper Quotes
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Did Charity prevail, the press would prove A vehicle of virtue, truth, and love.
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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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It is a general rule of Judgment, that a mischief should rather be admitted than an inconvenience.
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove's wing, Unsoil'd, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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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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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain.
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Friends, books, a garden, and perhaps his pen, Delightful industry enjoy'd at home, An Nature, in her cultivated trim Dress'ed to his taste, inviting him abroad - Can he want occupation who has these?
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Could he with reason murmur at his case, Himself sole author of his own disgrace?
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Unmissed but by his dogs and by his groom.
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Religion, if in heavenly truths attired, Needs only to be seen to be admired.
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A noisy man is always in the right.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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They best can judge a poet's worth, Who oft themselves have known The pangs of a poetic birth By labours of their own.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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There is a mixture of evil in everything we do; indulgence encourages us to encroach, while we Crabbe exercise the rights of children, we become childish.
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Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appear'd, And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard: To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give a Milton birth, ask'd ages more.
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All constraint, / Except what wisdom lays on evil men, / Is evil.
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A life all turbulence and noise may seem To him that leads it wise and to be praised, But wisdom is a pearl with most success Sought in still waters.
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There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk.
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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.
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Learning itself, received into a mind By nature weak, or viciously inclined, Serves but to lead philosophers astray, Where children would with ease discern the way.
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Made poetry a mere mechanic art.