William Cowper Quotes

Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
William Cowper

Selfish, Guilt, Principles

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
William Cowper

God, Storm, Sea

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
William Cowper

Wisdom, Knowledge, Humble

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
William Cowper

Love, Hope, Death

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
William Cowper

Life, Variety, Spice

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

Place, Solitude, Face

Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.
William Cowper

Positive, Men, Judgment

Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
William Cowper

No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
William Cowper

Empty, Patriot, Stomach

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
William Cowper

Gardening, Garden, Loves

Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
William Cowper

Wisdom, Humble, Knows

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.
William Cowper

Fight, Single, Friend

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
William Cowper

Life, Happiness, True

Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
William Cowper

Satan, Weakest, Saint

A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
William Cowper

Yes, Creator, Worships

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.
William Cowper

Learning, Heart, May

A fool must now and then be right, by chance.
William Cowper

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
William Cowper

Mind, Rest, Quite

An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.
William Cowper

Stuck, Tail, Sting

God made the country, and man made the town.
William Cowper

God, Country, Made

How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.
William Cowper

Home, Kept, Dunce

It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
William Cowper

Blood, Hear, Supreme

Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
William Cowper

God, Heart, May

Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
William Cowper

Nature, Good, God

No one was ever scolded out of their sins.
William Cowper

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: November 26, 1731

Died: April 25, 1800

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