A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
WILLIAM COWPERSkins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
More William Cowper Quotes
-
-
No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Ceremony 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 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 -
But 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 COWPER -
I 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 COWPER -
God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.
WILLIAM COWPER -
The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
WILLIAM COWPER -
I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
WILLIAM COWPER -
This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Still ending, and beginning still.
WILLIAM COWPER -
The still small voice is wanted.
WILLIAM COWPER






