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 COWPERSends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
More William Cowper Quotes
-
-
I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
WILLIAM COWPER -
Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
WILLIAM COWPER -
The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
WILLIAM COWPER -
What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
WILLIAM COWPER -
I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
WILLIAM COWPER -
To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
WILLIAM COWPER -
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 -
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 -
Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
WILLIAM COWPER -
While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
WILLIAM COWPER