[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
WILLIAM COWPER[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
WILLIAM COWPERSome people are more nice than wise.
WILLIAM COWPERHow sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
WILLIAM COWPERThe bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
WILLIAM COWPERYe therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
WILLIAM COWPERJudge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
WILLIAM COWPERIf my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
WILLIAM COWPERTruth is the golden girdle of the globe.
WILLIAM COWPERVariety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
WILLIAM COWPERKnowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
WILLIAM COWPERThis fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
WILLIAM COWPERNow 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 Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
WILLIAM COWPERReasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
WILLIAM COWPERMan may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
WILLIAM COWPERThe darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
WILLIAM COWPER