The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
WILLIAM COWPERThe proud are ever most provoked by pride.
WILLIAM COWPERTea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
WILLIAM COWPERKnowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
WILLIAM COWPERGod moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.
WILLIAM COWPERThey whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
WILLIAM COWPERThe only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
WILLIAM COWPERWho loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
WILLIAM COWPERSpring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
WILLIAM COWPERBlind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
WILLIAM COWPERRemorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
WILLIAM COWPERAlas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?
WILLIAM COWPERAnd works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
WILLIAM COWPERFar happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
WILLIAM COWPERO Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
WILLIAM COWPERAfter long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
WILLIAM COWPERExistence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
WILLIAM COWPER