All we behold is miracle.
WILLIAM COWPERAll we behold is miracle.
WILLIAM COWPERThe man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
WILLIAM COWPERSends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
WILLIAM COWPERCeremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
WILLIAM COWPER[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
WILLIAM COWPERMan may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
WILLIAM COWPERI venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
WILLIAM COWPERKnowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
WILLIAM COWPERTis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
WILLIAM COWPERThe only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
WILLIAM COWPERThus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
WILLIAM COWPERHabits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
WILLIAM COWPERBooks are not seldom talismans and spells.
WILLIAM COWPERHappy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
WILLIAM COWPERJudge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
WILLIAM COWPERThere is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
WILLIAM COWPER