William Cowper Quotes
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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[My kitten] is dressed in a tortoise-shell suit, and I know you will delight in her.
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There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk.
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But conversation, choose what theme we may, And chiefly when religion leads the way, Should flow, like waters after summer show'rs, Not as if raised by mere mechanic powers.
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Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world; to see the stir Of the Great Babel, and not feel the crowd.
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An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.
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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock'd in the cradle of the western breeze.
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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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All constraint, / Except what wisdom lays on evil men, / Is evil.
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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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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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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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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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They love the country, and none else, who seek For their own sake its silence and its shade. Delights which who would leave, that has a heart Susceptible of pity, or a mind Cultured and capable of sober thought.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
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But poverty, with most who whimper forth Their long complaints, is self-inflicted woe; The effect of laziness, or sottish write.
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Some men make gain a fountain, whence proceeds A stream of liberal and heroic deeds; The swell of pity, not to be confined Within the scanty limits of the mind.
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Strange as it may seem, the most ludicrous lines I ever wrote have been written in the saddest mood.
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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I have a kitten,the drollest of all creatures that ever wore a cat's skin.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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No wisdom that she may gain by experience and reflection hereafter, will compensate the loss of her present hilarity.