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 COWPERBlind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
More William Cowper Quotes
-
-
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
WILLIAM COWPER -
The still small voice is wanted.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
WILLIAM COWPER -
God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
WILLIAM COWPER -
Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
WILLIAM COWPER -
O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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 -
How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
WILLIAM COWPER