Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
WILLIAM COWPERI 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.
More William Cowper Quotes
-
-
Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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 -
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 -
The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
WILLIAM COWPER -
We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
WILLIAM COWPER -
When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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 -
Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
WILLIAM COWPER -
God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
WILLIAM COWPER -
The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
WILLIAM COWPER -
And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
WILLIAM COWPER