Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
WILLIAM COWPERThus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
WILLIAM COWPERHabits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
WILLIAM COWPERAbsence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
WILLIAM COWPERYe fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
WILLIAM COWPERAbsence of proof is not proof of absence.
WILLIAM COWPERTrials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
WILLIAM COWPERUnless a love of virtue light the flame,
WILLIAM COWPERStill ending, and beginning still.
WILLIAM COWPEREngland with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
WILLIAM COWPERExistence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
WILLIAM COWPERPleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
WILLIAM COWPERTea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
WILLIAM COWPERVice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
WILLIAM COWPERThe bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
WILLIAM COWPERTruth is the golden girdle of the globe.
WILLIAM COWPERThe innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
WILLIAM COWPER