Quotes by William Cowper

'Tis hard if all is false that I advance, A fool must now and then...

#Chance

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

#Compassion

The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change,...

#Earth

An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by...

#Epitaphs And Epigrams

Grief is itself a med'cine.

#Grief

Manner is all in all whatever is writ, the substitute for genius sense and wit

#Manners

Glory built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt

#Principles

Thus always teasing others, and days teas'd, His only pleasure is to be displeas'd

#Pleasure

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

#Positive Thinking

It is a terrible thought, that nothing is ever forgotten; that not an oath is...

#Prayer, #Religion, #Thought

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

#Absence, #Work