The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
WILLIAM COWPERThe cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
More William Cowper Quotes
-
-
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 -
Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
WILLIAM COWPER -
The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
WILLIAM COWPER -
I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
WILLIAM COWPER -
The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
WILLIAM COWPER -
The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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 -
Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
WILLIAM COWPER -
I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
WILLIAM COWPER -
He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
WILLIAM COWPER -
A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
WILLIAM COWPER -
The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
WILLIAM COWPER -
A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
WILLIAM COWPER