An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
WILLIAM COWPERWhat peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
More William Cowper Quotes
-
-
God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
WILLIAM COWPER -
Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
WILLIAM COWPER -
A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
WILLIAM COWPER -
What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
WILLIAM COWPER -
The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
WILLIAM COWPER -
They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
WILLIAM COWPER -
Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
WILLIAM COWPER -
If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
WILLIAM COWPER -
Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
WILLIAM COWPER -
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 -
What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
WILLIAM COWPER -
War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
WILLIAM COWPER