Quotes by William Cowper

For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost We seek...

#Truth

The man that hails you Tom or Jack, and proves by thumps upon your back...

#Friendship, #Love

I would not enter in my list of friends, Who needlessly sets foot upon a...

#Friendship, #Love

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful...

#Books, #Meditation

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

#Knowledge

Thou god of our idolatry, the press. . . . Thou fountain, at which drink...

#Drink

John Gilpin was a citizen Of credit and renown, A train-band captain eke was he...

#Famous

Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with...

#Blessings

And diff'ring judgments serve but to declare that truth lies somewhere, if we knew but...

#Judgement

The solemn fop; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge

#Judgement

A business with a income at its heels, furnishes always oil for its own wheels

#Business

Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

#Wisdom