William Cowper Quotes
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How! leap into the pit our life to save? To save our life leap all into the grave.
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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color'd like his own, and having pow'r T' enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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Fanaticism, the false fire of an overheated mind.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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No wisdom that she may gain by experience and reflection hereafter, will compensate the loss of her present hilarity.
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Lord, it is my chief complaint, That my love is weak and faint; Yet I love thee and adore, Oh for grace to love thee more!
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Without one friend, above all foes, Britannia gives the world repose.
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow'd perhaps by a smile.
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Misery still delights to trace Its semblance in another's case.
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The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.
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O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse, Not more distinct from harmony divine The constant creaking of a country sign.
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Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys, Unfriendly to society's chief joys: Thy worst effect is banishing for hours The sex whose presence civilizes ours.
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All truth is precious, if not all divine; and what dilates the powers must needs refine.
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I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain, And bear the marks upon a blushing face, OF needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace.
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Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense? I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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Good sense, good health, good conscience, and good fame,--all these belong to virtue, and all prove that virtue has a title to your love.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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Toil for the brave! The brave that are no more.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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Sin let loose speaks punishment at hand.
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He that attends to his interior self, That has a heart, and keeps it; has a mind That hungers, and supplies it; and who seeks A social, not a dissipated life, Has business.