William Cowper Quotes
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Toil for the brave! The brave that are no more.
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Tis Providence alone secures In every change both mine and yours.
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The dogs did bark, the children screamed, Up flew the windows all; And every soul bawled out, Well done! As loud as he could bawl.
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That good diffused may more abundant grow.
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All truth is precious, if not all divine; and what dilates the powers must needs refine.
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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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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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With spots quadrangular of diamond form, ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, and spades, the emblems of untimely graves.
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Most satirists are indeed a public scourge; Their mildest physic is a farrier's purge; Their acrid temper turns, as soon as stirr'd, The milk of their good purpose all to curd. Their zeal begotten, as their works rehearse, By lean despair upon an empty purse.
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A moral, sensible, and well-bred manWill not affront me, and no other can.
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In man or woman, but far most in man, And most of all in man that ministers, And serves the altar, in my soul I loathe All affectation. 'Tis my perfect scorn: Object of my implacable disgust.
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He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides.
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Misery still delights to trace Its semblance in another's case.
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The fall of waters and the song of birds, And hills that echo to the distant berds, Are luxuries excelling all the glare The world can boast, and her chief favorites share.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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Sin let loose speaks punishment at hand.
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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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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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To see the Law by Christ fulfilled, And hear His pardoning voice Changes a slave into a child, And duty into choice.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.