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 COWPERAn idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
WILLIAM COWPERSkins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
WILLIAM COWPERHow 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 COWPERIn a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
WILLIAM COWPERI seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
WILLIAM COWPERGod made the country, and man made the town.
WILLIAM COWPERAccomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
WILLIAM COWPERWhen nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
WILLIAM COWPERThere is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
WILLIAM COWPERGod moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
WILLIAM COWPERHappy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
WILLIAM COWPERTo follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
WILLIAM COWPERPleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
WILLIAM COWPERBut oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
WILLIAM COWPERAbsence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
WILLIAM COWPER