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William Cowper Quotes - Page 2

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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.

A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.

Atheism, Dear, Heretic

Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.

Pain, Vices, Virtue

To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.

Get Well, Recovery, Keys

William Cowper (1851). “The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems. Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence”, p.15

Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.

Men, He Man, Employed

Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.

Degrees, Judgment, Pleasure

William Cowper (1855). “The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings”, p.21

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Life, Happiness, Ease

William Cowper (1815). “Poems”, p.290

How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.

Sweet, Loneliness, Solitude

William Cowper, Robert Southey (1854). “The Works: Comprising His Poems, Correspondence and Translations : in Eight Volumes. ¬The poetical works, Vol. 1”, p.237

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.

Atheist, Easter, Earth

William Cowper, D Macvean (1830). “Poems”, p.36

But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.

Mean, Ease, Modesty

William Cowper, John William Cunningham (1835). “The works ¬of William Cowper: Poems : with an essay on the genius and poetry of Cowper”, p.158

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

Love, I Miss You, Missing You

William Cowper, Robert Southey (1836). “Miscellaneous poems. Olney hymns. Anti-Thelyphthora. Table talk and other poems. Translations from Vincent Bourne”, p.28

Perhaps thou gav'st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.

Kissing, Soul, Tears

William Cowper, Nick Rhodes (2003). “William Cowper: Selected Poems”, p.23, Psychology Press

He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides.

Freedom, Slave, Freeman

William Cowper (1855). “The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings”, p.193

A fool must now and then be right, by chance

Truth, Humorous, Intellectual

"Conversation" l. 96 (1782)

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

God, Beach, Moving

Olney Hymns "Light Shining Out of Darkness" l. 1 (1779)

I am out of humanity's reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.

Sweet, Journey, Humanity

William Cowper (1824). “Poems”, p.172

In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.

Buried, Tombs

Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.

Wisdom, Fall, Taken

William Cowper (1835). “The Works of William Cowper: Table talk. The task. Tirocinium; or, A review of schools. Miscellaneous poems”, p.33

The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.

Hope, Passed Away, Tomorrow

God made the country, and man made the town.

God, Country, Men

The Task bk. 1 "The Sofa" l. 749 (1785) See Abraham Cowley 2

The man to solitude accustom'd long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease, After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.

Rain, Flower, Fall

William Cowper (1872). “The poetical works of William Cowper: Complete ed., with memoir, explanatory notes etc”, p.419

The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.

Innocence, Innocent, Uncomfortable

Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.

White, Black, Skins

William Cowper, James Thomson (1850). “The works of Cowper and Thomson including many letters and poems never before published in this country: With a new memoir of the life of Thomson”, p.122

The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.

Forgiving, Pairs, Pity

William Cowper, James Thomson (1851). “The Works of Cowper and Thomson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country : with a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson”, p.122

What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?

Anniversary, Wife, Friendship Love

William Cowper, James Thomson (1832). “The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson”, p.162

Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.

War, Successful, Solitude

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