Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
WILLIAM COWPERAbsence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
WILLIAM COWPEREvents of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
WILLIAM COWPERI will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
WILLIAM COWPERRemorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
WILLIAM COWPERAll we behold is miracle.
WILLIAM COWPERNo man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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.”
WILLIAM COWPER…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
WILLIAM COWPERKnowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
WILLIAM COWPERThere is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
WILLIAM COWPERWhen nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
WILLIAM COWPERTime, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
WILLIAM COWPERAccomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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 COWPERSends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
WILLIAM COWPERBuilt God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
WILLIAM COWPER