Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
WILLIAM COWPERNature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
WILLIAM COWPERThe nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
WILLIAM COWPERHe that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
WILLIAM COWPERWhat we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
WILLIAM COWPERThe innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
WILLIAM COWPERIt chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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 COWPERMan may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
WILLIAM COWPERRestraining 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 COWPERThe Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
WILLIAM COWPERBut oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
WILLIAM COWPERO Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
WILLIAM COWPERRemorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
WILLIAM COWPERGrief is itself a medicine.
WILLIAM COWPERSome people are more nice than wise.
WILLIAM COWPERDetested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
WILLIAM COWPER