William Cowper Quotes
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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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Time, as he passes us, has a dove's wing, Unsoil'd, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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Could he with reason murmur at his case, Himself sole author of his own disgrace?
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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.
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England, with all thy faults I love thee still, My country!
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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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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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All affectation; 'tis my perfect scorn; Object of my implacable disgust.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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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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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule.
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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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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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I have a kitten,the drollest of all creatures that ever wore a cat's skin.
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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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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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Whoever keeps an open ear For tattlers will be sure to hear The trumpet of contention.
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The man to solitude accustom'd long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease, After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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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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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.