Quotes by William Cowper
The path of sorrow and that path alone, leads to a land where sorrow is unknown.
He has no hope who never had a fear.
Candid and generous and just. Boys care but little whom they trust. An error soon corrected -- for who but learns in riper years. That man, when smoothest he appears, is most to be suspected?
The dinner waits, and we are tired: / Said Gilpin - So am I!
He kissed likewise the maid in the kitchen, and seemed upon the whole a most loving, kissing, kind-hearted gentleman.
Manner is all in all whatever is writ, the substitute for genius sense and wit
O Winter ruler of the inverted year, . . . I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturb'd Retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening, know.
A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
Low ambition and the thirst of praise.
Hence jarring sectaries may learnTheir real interest to discern;That brother should not war with brother,And worry and devour each other;But sing and shine by sweet consent,Till life's poor transient night is spent,Respecting in each other's caseThe gifts of nature and of grace.
The life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute; From the center all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute
He found it inconvenient to be poor.
