Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
WILLIAM COWPERNature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
More William Cowper Quotes
-
-
The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
WILLIAM COWPER -
It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
WILLIAM COWPER -
If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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 -
O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
WILLIAM COWPER -
The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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 -
The 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 COWPER -
Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
WILLIAM COWPER