William Cowper
30 quotations
Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.
No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.
Fanaticism soberly defined, is the false fire of an over heated mind.
Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
The darkest day, If you live till tomorrow will have past away.
The life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?
God made the country and man made the town.
Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
Religion! what treasure untold resides in that heavenly word!
Remorse begets reform.
Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
No one was ever scolded out of their sins.
I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
The path of sorrow and that path alone, leads to a land where sorrow is unknown.
A fool must now and then be right, by chance.
Once more I would adopt the graver style -- a teacher should be sparing of his smile.
Variety's the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavor.