William Cowper Quotes

I play with syllables and sport in song

United yet divided, twain at once: So sit two kings of Brentford on one throne.

Misses! the tale that I relate This lesson seems to carry — Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry.

Beware of desp'rate steps! The darkest day (Live till tomorrow) will have passed away.

I shall not ask Jean Jacques Rousseau If birds confabulate or no.

Oh that those lips had language! Life has pass'd With me but roughly since I heard thee last.

With filial confidence inspired, Can lift to Heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say, My Father made them all!

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

Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

Those golden times And those Arcadian scenes that Maro sings, And Sidney, warbler of poetic prose.

Happy the bard, (if that fair name belong
To him that blends no fable with his song)
Whose lines uniting, by an honest art,
The faithful monitors and poets part,
Seek to delight, that they may mend mankind,
And while they captivate, inform the mind.
Still happier, if he till a thankful soil,
And fruit reward his honorable toil:
But happier far who comfort those that wait
To hear plain truth at Judah's hallow'd gate

Freedom has a thousand charms to show, That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.

The still small voice is wanted.

God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants His footsteps in the sea And rides upon the storm.

Typerien edelläkävijoiden seuraaminen ja molempien silmien ummistaminen on helpompaa kuin ajatteleminen.