William Cowper Quotes about Pain

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Grief is itself a medicine.

William Cowper

Death, Pain, Grief

Charity

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

William Cowper

Pain, Vices, Virtue

Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain.

William Cowper

Sports, Pain, Hunting

'The Task' (1785) bk. 3 'The Garden' l. 326 (on hunting)

There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.

William Cowper

Pain, Poetry, Poetic

'The Task' (1785) bk. 2 'The Timepiece' l. 285

I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain, And bear the marks upon a blushing face, OF needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace.

William Cowper

Pain, Men, Self

William Cowper (1811). “Poems”, p.237

They fix attention, heedless of your pain, With oaths like rivets forced into the brain; And e'en when sober truth prevails throughout, They swear it, till affirmance breeds a doubt.

William Cowper

Pain, Doubt, Brain

William Cowper (1853). “The Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life ; Six Engravings on Steel”, p.83

And in that hour, The seeds of cruelty, that since have swell'd To such gigantic and enormous growth, Were sown in human nature's fruitful soil. Hence date the persecution and the pain That man inflicts on all inferior kinds, Regardless of their plaints.

William Cowper

Pain, Men, Animal

William Cowper (1872). “The poetical works of William Cowper: Complete ed., with memoir, explanatory notes etc”, p.318