Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old William Cowper quotes, William Cowper sayings, and William Cowper proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.William Cowper
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I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute, From the centre all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute.William Cowper
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Whoso seeks an audit here propitious, pays his tribute, game or fish, wild fowl or venison, and his errand speeds.William Cowper
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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.William Cowper
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The mind's impression too on every face. William Cowper
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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
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.William Cowper
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This cabin, Mary, in my sight appears, built as it has been in our waning years. A rest afforded to our weary feet. Preliminary to the last retreat.William Cowper
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The pipe, with solemn interposing puff, / Makes half a sentence at a time enough; / The dozing sages drop the drowsy strain, / Then pause and puff, and speak, and pause again. / Such often, like the tube they so admire, / Important triflers! have more smoke than fire. / Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys, / Unfriendly to society's chief joys, / Thy worst effect is banishing for hours / The sex whose presence civilizes ours.William Cowper
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Source of love, and light of day, / Tear me from myself away; / Every view and thought of mine / Cast into the mould of thine; / Teach, O teach this faithless heart / A consistent constant part; / Or, if it must live to grow / More rebellious, / break it now!William Cowper
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Hatred and vengeance, my eternal portion, / Scarce can endure delay of execution, / Wait, with impatient readiness, to seize my / Soul in a moment. / Damned below Judas:more abhorred than he was, / Who for a few pence sold his holy Master. / Twice betrayed Jesus me, this last delinquent, / Deems the profanest. / Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: / Hell might afford my miseries a shelter; / Therefore hell keeps her ever hungry mouths all / Bolted against me. / Hard lot! encompassed with a thousand dangers; / Weary, faint, trembling with a thousand terrors; / I'm called, if vanquished, to receive a sentence / Worse than Abiram's. / Him the vindictive rod of angry justice / Sent quick and howling to the center headlong; / I, fed with judgment, in a fleshly tomb, am / Buried above ground.William Cowper
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; / As useless if it goes as when it stands.William Cowper
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Thousands, careless of the damning sin, / Kiss the book's outside who ne'er look within.William Cowper
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Hypocrisy, formality in prayer, / And the dull service of the lip were there.William Cowper
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Who deem his house a useless place, / Faith, want of common sense; / And ardour in the Christian race, / A hypocrite's pretence?William Cowper
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Conversation should flow, like waters after summer showers, not as if raised by mere mechanic powers.William Cowper
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God made the country, and man made the town.William Cowper
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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, / The clouds ye so much dread / Are big with mercy, and shall break / In blessings on your head. William Cowper
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Happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.William Cowper
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A fool . . . says little, but that little said owes all its weight, like loaded dice, to lead.William Cowper
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.William Cowper
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But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.William Cowper
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Some to the fascination of a name surrender judgment, hoodwinked. William Cowper
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Behind a frowning providence / He hides a smiling face.William Cowper
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death and frustrates hope severer than despair.William Cowper
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum? William Cowper
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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.William Cowper
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She, that will with kittens jest, should bear a kitten's joke.William Cowper
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The LORD works in mysterious ways. William Cowper
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Visitors are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not visit, would do nothing.William Cowper