Some people are more nice than wise.
WILLIAM COWPERAnd the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
More William Cowper Quotes
-
-
A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
WILLIAM COWPER -
There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
WILLIAM COWPER -
God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
WILLIAM COWPER -
Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Remorse begets reform.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
WILLIAM COWPER -
O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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






