Advertisements
William Cowper Quotes
Advertisements
![... no wisdom that [my kitten] may gain by experience and reflection hereafter will compensate for the loss of her present hilarity Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/766/765172/765172.webp "... no wisdom that [my kitten] may gain by experience and reflection hereafter will compensate for the loss of her present hilarity Picture Quote #1")
Advertisements
Advertisements
Advertisements
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
Friendship Quotes
Love Quotes
Life Quotes
Funny Quotes
Motivational Quotes
Inspirational Quotes
Advertisements
Text Quotes
Gloriously drunk, obey the important call (William Cowper Quotes)
Fanaticism soberly defined, is the false fire of an over heated mind (William Cowper Quotes)
The life of ease is a difficult pursuit (William Cowper Quotes)
A worm is in the bud of youth, and at the root of age (William Cowper Quotes)
A kick that scarce would move a horse, may kill a sound divine (William Cowper Quotes)
But strive still to be a man before your mother (William Cowper Quotes)
But animated nature sweeter still, to soothe and satisfy the human ear (William Cowper Quotes)
An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting (William Cowper Quotes)
Man in society is like a flow’r, blown in its native bed. ‘Tis there alone His faculties expanded in full bloom Shine out, there only reach their proper use (William Cowper Quotes)
The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save (William Cowper Quotes)
... no wisdom that [my kitten] may gain by experience and reflection hereafter will compensate for the loss of her present hilarity (William Cowper Quotes)
Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head (William Cowper Quotes)
How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light (William Cowper Quotes)
When all within is peace How nature seems to smile Delights that never cease The live-long day beguile (William Cowper Quotes)
When I thinkof my own native land, In a moment I seem to be there; But alas! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair (William Cowper Quotes)
Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense? I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such (William Cowper Quotes)
Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. (William Cowper Quotes)
Philologists, who chase A painting syllable through time and space Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark, To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah’s Ark. (William Cowper Quotes)
To trace in Nature’s most minute design The signature and stamp of power divine. ... The Invisible in things scarce seen revealed, To whom an atom is an ample field. (William Cowper Quotes)
Domestic happiness, thou only bliss Of paradise that has surviv’d the fall! (William Cowper Quotes)
The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged. (William Cowper Quotes)
The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive. (William Cowper Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
‘Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it. (William Cowper Quotes)
Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their shackles fall. (William Cowper Quotes)
Our love is principle, and has its root In reason, is judicious, manly, free (William Cowper Quotes)
Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die (William Cowper Quotes)
There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot. (William Cowper Quotes)
Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, but England's Milton equals both in fame (William Cowper Quotes)