“How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.”
— William Cowper
“Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.”
— William Cowper
“They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.”
— William Cowper
“Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.”
— William Cowper
“No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.”
— William Cowper
“Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.”
— William Cowper
“Knowledge is proud that it knows so much wisdom is humble that it knows no more.”
— William Cowper
“God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.”
— William Cowper
“A fool must now and then be right, by chance.”
— William Cowper
“Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.”
— William Cowper
“Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.”
— William Cowper
“Such stuff the world is made of.”
— William Cowper
“Variety’s the very spice of life That gives it all its flavour.”
— William Cowper
“How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home!”
— William Cowper
“The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow.”
— William Cowper
“I praise the Frenchman his remark was shrewd – “How sweet how passing sweet is solitude.” But grant me still a friend in my retreat Whom I may whisper – Solitude is sweet.”
— William Cowper
“A glory gilds the sacred page Majestic like the sun It gives a light to every age It gives but borrows none.”
— William Cowper
“We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.”
— William Cowper
“Absence of occupation is not rest A mind quite vacant is a mind distress’d.”
— William Cowper
“Religion if in heavenly truths attired Needs only to be seen to be admired.”
— William Cowper
“Restraining prayer we cease to fight Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.”
— William Cowper
“Beware of desp’rate steps the darkest day lived till tomorrow will have pass’d away.”
— William Cowper
“Happiness depends as Nature shows less on exterior things than most suppose.”
— William Cowper
“The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.”
— William Cowper
“Happiness depends as Nature shows Less on exterior things than most suppose.”
— William Cowper
“Grief is itself a med’cine.”
— William Cowper
“Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.”
— William Cowper
“God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform He plants his footsteps in the sea And rides upon the storm.”
— William Cowper
“The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.”
— William Cowper
“God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform He plants his footsteps in the sea And rides upon the storm.”
— William Cowper