O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
WILLIAM COWPERI pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
More William Cowper Quotes
-
-
God made the country, and man made the town.
WILLIAM COWPER -
God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
WILLIAM COWPER -
Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Some people are more nice than wise.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
WILLIAM COWPER -
There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
WILLIAM COWPER -
After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
WILLIAM COWPER -
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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 -
To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
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 -
Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
WILLIAM COWPER