Absence of occupation is not rest.
WILLIAM COWPERWhat is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
More William Cowper Quotes
-
-
There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
WILLIAM COWPER -
War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
WILLIAM COWPER -
There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
WILLIAM COWPER -
The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
WILLIAM COWPER -
England 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 COWPER -
Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
WILLIAM COWPER -
How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Remorse begets reform.
WILLIAM COWPER