William Cowper Quotes
An English poet and hymnodist.
(1731 - 1800)
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A brave man knows no malice; but forgets, in peace, the injuries of war, and gives his direst foe a friend's embrace.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance.
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A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic like the sun, It gives a light to every age, It gives, but borrows none.
[Scripture]
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A moral, sensible, and well-bred man Will not affront me, and no other can.
[Courtesy]
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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A shallow brain, behind a serious mask; an oracle within an empty cask - the solemn fop!
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
[Absence]
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
[Absence]
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
[Absence]
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An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.
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Beware of desp'rate steps; the darkest day lived till tomorrow will have pass'd away.
[Despair]
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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.
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Detested sport, that owes its pleasures to another's pain.
[Cruelty]
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Doing nothing with a deal of skill.
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Domestic happiness - thou only bliss of paradise that has survived the fall.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
[Events]
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
[Happiness]
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Fanaticism, the false fire of an overheated mind.
[Fanaticism]
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Give what thou canst, without thee we are poor, and with thee rich, take what thou wilt away.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
[Glory]
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