Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
WILLIAM COWPERTis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
More William Cowper Quotes
-
-
Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Remorse begets reform.
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 -
God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
WILLIAM COWPER -
Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Grief is itself a medicine.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
WILLIAM COWPER -
When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
WILLIAM COWPER -
How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
WILLIAM COWPER -
The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
WILLIAM COWPER






