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 COWPERThe darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
More William Cowper Quotes
-
-
Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
WILLIAM COWPER -
All we behold is miracle.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
WILLIAM COWPER -
It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
WILLIAM COWPER -
Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face. His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour;
WILLIAM COWPER -
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
WILLIAM COWPER -
A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
WILLIAM COWPER -
He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
WILLIAM COWPER -
No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
WILLIAM COWPER -
And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
WILLIAM COWPER