Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
WILLIAM COWPERHappy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
More William Cowper Quotes
-
-
Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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 -
Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
WILLIAM COWPER -
An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
WILLIAM COWPER -
The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
WILLIAM COWPER -
The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
WILLIAM COWPER -
I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
WILLIAM COWPER -
And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
WILLIAM COWPER -
What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
WILLIAM COWPER -
Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
WILLIAM COWPER -
It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
WILLIAM COWPER






