William Cowper Quotes
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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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Grief is itself a medicine.
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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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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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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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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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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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[My kitten's] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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Whoever keeps an open ear For tattlers will be sure to hear The trumpet of contention.
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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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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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Strange as it may seem, the most ludicrous lines I ever wrote have been written in the saddest mood.
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I have a kitten,the drollest of all creatures that ever wore a cat's skin.
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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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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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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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Some people are more nice than wise.
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Lived in his saddle, loved the chase, the course, And always, ere he mounted, kiss'd his horse.
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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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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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No tree in all the grove but has its charms, Though each its hue peculiar.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.