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Absence of occupation is not rest.
— William Cowper
Ever let the Fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home.
— William Cowper
How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too!
— William Cowper
Toil for the brave! The brave that are no more.
— William Cowper
There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart; he does not feel for man.
— William Cowper
Words cannot be remote from reality when they create reality.
— John Cowper Powys
Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts.
— William Cowper
But, oh, Thou bounteous Giver of all good, Thou art, of all Thy gifts, Thyself thy crown!
— William Cowper
I am out of humanity's reach.
— William Cowper
It is a general rule of Judgment, that a mischief should rather be admitted than an inconvenience.
— William Cowper
God moves in mysterious ways
His wonders to performs — William Cowper
His wonders to performs — William Cowper
It is only the inexperienced and thoughtless who find pleasure in killing fish for the mere sake of killing them. No sportsman does this.
— William Cowper Prime
The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
— William Cowper
The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
— William Cowper
But poverty, with most who whimper forth
Their long complaints, is self-inflicted woe;
The effect of laziness, or sottish write. — William Cowper
Their long complaints, is self-inflicted woe;
The effect of laziness, or sottish write. — William Cowper
My soul is sick with every day's report of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled.
— William Cowper
Unmissed but by his dogs and by his groom.
— William Cowper
And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow'd perhaps by a smile.
— William Cowper
Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time.
— William Cowper
They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
— William Cowper
The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
— William Cowper
Assail'd by scandal and the tongue of strife,
His only answer was, a blameless life. — William Cowper
His only answer was, a blameless life. — William Cowper
Oh winter, king of fire side enjoyments, home born happiness.
— William Cowper
When was public virtue to be found when private was not?
— William Cowper
Folly ends where genuine hope begins.
— William Cowper
The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
— William Cowper
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
— William Cowper
Thieves at home must hang; but he that puts Into his overgorged and bloated purse The wealth of Indian provinces, escapes.
— William Cowper
A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
— William Cowper
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
— William Cowper
A life all turbulence and noise may seem To him that leads it wise and to be praised, But wisdom is a pearl with most success Sought in still waters.
— William Cowper
The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
— William Cowper
Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
— William Cowper
You know what he thinks of Cowper and Scott;
— Jane Austen
Eternity for bubbles proves at last a senseless bargain.
— William Cowper
The darkest day if you live till tomorrow will have past away.
— William Cowper
Some write a narrative of wars and feats, Of heroes little known, and call the rant A history.
— William Cowper
God made the country, and man made the town.
— William Cowper
If the world like it not, so much the worse for them.
— William Cowper
Lights of the world, and stars of human race.
— 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
Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
— William Cowper
It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
— William Cowper
We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
— William Cowper
What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
— William Cowper
We sacrifice to dress till household joys and comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar dry, and keeps our larder lean.
— William Cowper
Life is short and the number of books is appalling.
— John Cowper Powys
For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost, We seek it, ere it comes to light, In every cranny but the right.
— William Cowper
Though peace be made, yet it's interest that keep peace.
— William Cowper
So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
— William Cowper
Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
— William Cowper
Ambition is the grand enemy of all peace.
— John Cowper Powys
Time, as he passes us, has a dove's wing,
Unsoil'd, and swift, and of a silken sound. — William Cowper
Unsoil'd, and swift, and of a silken sound. — William Cowper
Is base in kind, and born to be a slave.
— William Cowper
In a fleshy tomb I am buried above ground.
— William Cowper
One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the earth.
— John Cowper Powys
A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic like the sun, It gives a light to every age, It gives, but borrows none.
— William Cowper
The love that interferes and knows not how to leave alone is a love alien to Nature's ways.
— John Cowper Powys
Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
— William Cowper
But it is a sort of April-weather life that we lead in this world. A little sunshine is generally the prelude to a storm.
— William Cowper
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
— William Cowper
The still small voice is wanted.
— William Cowper
The trouble with Texas Baptists is that we do not hold them under water long enough.
— William Cowper Brann
With spots quadrangular of diamond form, ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, and spades, the emblems of untimely graves.
— William Cowper
Religion! what treasure untold resides in that heavenly word!
— 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
Th' embroid'ry of poetic dreams.
— William Cowper
Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
— William Cowper
Forgot the blush that virgin fears impart
To modest cheeks, and borrowed one from art. — William Cowper
To modest cheeks, and borrowed one from art. — William Cowper
Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants; each claiming truth, And truth disclaiming both.
— William Cowper
The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.
— 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
Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
— William Cowper
An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
— William Cowper
The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.
— William Cowper
There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk.
— William Cowper
No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
— William Cowper
A teacher should be sparing of his smile.
— William Cowper
No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show
That slaves, howe'er contented, never know. — William Cowper
That slaves, howe'er contented, never know. — William Cowper
Scenes must be beautiful which daily view'd
Please daily, and whose novelty survives
Long knowledge and the scrutiny of years. — William Cowper
Please daily, and whose novelty survives
Long knowledge and the scrutiny of years. — William Cowper
Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
— William Cowper
But what is truth? 'Twas Pilate's question put
To Truth itself, that deign'd him no reply. — William Cowper
To Truth itself, that deign'd him no reply. — William Cowper
Spare feast! a radish and an egg.
— William Cowper
Men deal with life as children with their play,
Who first misuse, then cast their toys away. — William Cowper
Who first misuse, then cast their toys away. — William Cowper
O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?
— William Cowper
When from soft love proceeds the deep distress, ah! why forbid the willing tears to flow?
— William Cowper
Tea - the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
— William Cowper