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William Cowper
English
Poet
About the author
A fool must now and then be right, by chance.
William Cowper,
English
Poet
#Right
#Now
#Chance
#Fool
No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
William Cowper,
English
Poet
#Man
The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
William Cowper,
English
Poet
#Will
#Day
#Tomorrow
O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?
William Cowper,
English
Poet
#Heart
#Popular
#Man
#Proof
Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
William Cowper,
English
Poet
#Mistakes
#Man
#Instinct
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
William Cowper,
English
Poet
#Nature
#Happiness
Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
William Cowper,
English
Poet
#Remorse
#Pleasure
No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.
William Cowper,
English
Poet
#World
#Rest
Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
William Cowper,
English
Poet
#Satan
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,
English
Poet
#Solitude
The dogs did bark, the children screamed, Up flew the windows all; And every soul bawled out, Well done! As loud as he could bawl.
William Cowper,
English
Poet
#Children
#Soul
#Dogs
#Windows
The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.
William Cowper,
English
Poet
#Earth
#Man
#Mind
#Change
#Novelty
The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
William Cowper,
English
Poet
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
William Cowper,
English
Poet
#Wisdom
No one was ever scolded out of their sins.
William Cowper,
English
Poet
Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.
William Cowper,
English
Poet
#Men
#Positive
#Judgment
Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
William Cowper,
English
Poet
#Garden
They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
William Cowper,
English
Poet
#Truth
#Wisdom
The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.
William Cowper,
English
Poet
Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
William Cowper,
English
Poet
#Life
#Variety
A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
William Cowper,
English
Poet
#Man
#Self
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
William Cowper,
English
Poet
#Love
#Hope
#Death
#Absence
#Despair
Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
William Cowper,
English
Poet
#Occupation
#Mind
#Rest
#Absence
Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
William Cowper,
English
Poet
#Absence
#Proof
An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.
William Cowper,
English
Poet
Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
William Cowper,
English
Poet
#Friend
#Fight
#Worth
#Shadows
#Ceremony
Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
William Cowper,
English
Poet
#Life
#Purpose
#Happiness
#Existence
#Bargain
Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
William Cowper,
English
Poet
#God
#Cause
#Effect
#Nature
#Name
God made the country, and man made the town.
William Cowper,
English
Poet
#God
#Country
#Man
God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
William Cowper,
English
Poet
#God
#Sea
#Plants
#Footsteps
#Wonders
How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.
William Cowper,
English
Poet
#Home
It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
William Cowper,
English
Poet
#Blood
Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
William Cowper,
English
Poet
#Knowledge
#Wisdom
Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
William Cowper,
English
Poet
#God
#Will
#Heart
#May
#Man
#Compassion
Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.
William Cowper,
English
Poet
#Heart
#May
#Books
#Learning
#Moments
#Meditation
Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
William Cowper,
English
Poet
#Principles
#Glory
#Guilt
#Shame