William Cowper Quotes
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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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To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
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Religion, richest favor of the skies.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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Unmissed but by his dogs and by his groom.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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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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An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path. But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will turn aside and let the reptile live.
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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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Could he with reason murmur at his case, Himself sole author of his own disgrace?
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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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I am out of humanity's reach.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain.
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Did Charity prevail, the press would prove A vehicle of virtue, truth, and love.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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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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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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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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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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Religion, if in heavenly truths attired, Needs only to be seen to be admired.
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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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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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Made poetry a mere mechanic art.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.