William Cowper's Quotes

It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.

Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

No one was ever scolded out of their sins.

No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.

Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.

The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.

The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.

The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.

The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.

Absence of proof is not proof of absence.

Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.