Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
WILLIAM COWPERPleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
More William Cowper Quotes
-
-
Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
WILLIAM COWPER -
This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
WILLIAM COWPER -
The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
WILLIAM COWPER -
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
WILLIAM COWPER -
Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
WILLIAM COWPER -
No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
WILLIAM COWPER -
The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, but trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
WILLIAM COWPER






