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Me howling blasts drive devious, tempest-tossed, / Sails ripped, seams opening wide, and compass lost. - William Cowper Quotes

Me howling blasts drive devious, tempest-tossed, / Sails ripped, seams opening wide, and compass lost.

What is it but a map of busy life,Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns? - William Cowper Quotes

What is it but a map of busy life,Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns?

I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy's door. - William Cowper Quotes

I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy's door.

An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting - William Cowper Quotes

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

Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will - William Cowper Quotes

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

Visitors are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not visit, would do nothing - William Cowper Quotes

Visitors are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not visit, would do nothing

Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys, / Unfriendly to society's chief joys, / Thy worst effect is banishing for hours / The sex whose presence civilizes ours. - William Cowper Quotes

Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys, / Unfriendly to society's chief joys, / Thy worst effect is banishing for hours / The sex whose presence civilizes ours.

No one was ever scolded out of their sins. - William Cowper Quotes

No one was ever scolded out of their sins.

We perished, each alone: / But I beneath a rougher sea, / And whelmed in deeper gulfs than he. - William Cowper Quotes

We perished, each alone: / But I beneath a rougher sea, / And whelmed in deeper gulfs than he.

I shall not ask Jean Jacques Rousseau - If birds confabulate or no - William Cowper Quotes

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

Ask

It is a terrible thought, that nothing is ever forgotten; that not an oath is ever uttered that does not continue to vibrate through all times, in the wide spreading current of sound; that not a prayer is lisped, that its record is not to be found st - William Cowper Quotes

It is a terrible thought, that nothing is ever forgotten; that not an oath is ever uttered that does not continue to vibrate through all times, in the wide spreading current of sound; that not a prayer is lisped, that its record is not to be found st

Let her pass, and charioted along / In guilty splendour, shake the public ways! - William Cowper Quotes

Let her pass, and charioted along / In guilty splendour, shake the public ways!

May I but meet thee on that peaceful shore,/ The parting word shall pass my lips no more! - William Cowper Quotes

May I but meet thee on that peaceful shore,/ The parting word shall pass my lips no more!

Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head - William Cowper Quotes

Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books. - William Cowper Quotes

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.

English Poet Heart

He would not, with a peremptory tone,Assert the nose upon his face his own. - William Cowper Quotes

He would not, with a peremptory tone,Assert the nose upon his face his own.

He sees that this great roundaboutThe world, with all its motley rout,Church, army, physic, law,Its customs and its businesses,Is no concern at all of his,And says -- what says he? -- Caw. - William Cowper Quotes

He sees that this great roundaboutThe world, with all its motley rout,Church, army, physic, law,Its customs and its businesses,Is no concern at all of his,And says -- what says he? -- Caw.

Army

So let us welcome peaceful evening in. - William Cowper Quotes

So let us welcome peaceful evening in.

A hat not much the worse for wear. - William Cowper Quotes

A hat not much the worse for wear.

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair - William Cowper Quotes

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair - William Cowper Quotes

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair

Knowledge dwells in heads replete with thoughts of other men; wisdom in minds attentive to their own. - William Cowper Quotes

Knowledge dwells in heads replete with thoughts of other men; wisdom in minds attentive to their own.

The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / Whom, snoring, she disturbs. - William Cowper Quotes

The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / Whom, snoring, she disturbs.

Did Charity prevail, the press would proveA vehicle of virtue, truth, and love. - William Cowper Quotes

Did Charity prevail, the press would proveA vehicle of virtue, truth, and love.

To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach. - William Cowper Quotes

To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.

God

Toll for the brave - / The brave! that are no more: / All sunk beneath the wave, / Fast by their native shore. - William Cowper Quotes

Toll for the brave - / The brave! that are no more: / All sunk beneath the wave, / Fast by their native shore.

O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. - William Cowper Quotes

O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.

I cannot talk with civet in the room,A fine puss-gentleman that's all perfume. - William Cowper Quotes

I cannot talk with civet in the room,A fine puss-gentleman that's all perfume.

Absence of occupation is not rest; a mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. - William Cowper Quotes

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

Absence English Poet

Spare feast! a radish and an egg. - William Cowper Quotes

Spare feast! a radish and an egg.

With spots quadrangular of diamond form,/ Ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, / And spades, the emblem of untimely graves. - William Cowper Quotes

With spots quadrangular of diamond form,/ Ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, / And spades, the emblem of untimely graves.

O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms? - William Cowper Quotes

O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?

Applause English Poet

From reveries so airy, from the toil / Of dropping buckets into empty wells, / And growing old in drawing nothing up. - William Cowper Quotes

From reveries so airy, from the toil / Of dropping buckets into empty wells, / And growing old in drawing nothing up.

Rome shall perish - write that word / In the blood that she has spilt. - William Cowper Quotes

Rome shall perish - write that word / In the blood that she has spilt.

Blood

He that holds fast the golden mean,And lives contently betweenThe little and the great,Feels not the wants that pinch the poor,Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door. - William Cowper Quotes

He that holds fast the golden mean,And lives contently betweenThe little and the great,Feels not the wants that pinch the poor,Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door.

Away went Gilpin, neck or naught, / Away went hat and wig! - William Cowper Quotes

Away went Gilpin, neck or naught, / Away went hat and wig!

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing. - William Cowper Quotes

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.

Still ending, and beginning still - William Cowper Quotes

Still ending, and beginning still

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor - William Cowper Quotes

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor

Life

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm. - William Cowper Quotes

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.

English Poet God

Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. - William Cowper Quotes

Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

English Poet Wisdom

Glory built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt - William Cowper Quotes

Glory built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt

Glory

Elegant as simplicity, and warmAs ecstasy. - William Cowper Quotes

Elegant as simplicity, and warmAs ecstasy.

Absence of proof is not proof of absence. - William Cowper Quotes

Absence of proof is not proof of absence.

Absence English Poet

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend. - William Cowper Quotes

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

English Poet Worth

Behind a frowning providence / He hides a smiling face. - William Cowper Quotes

Behind a frowning providence / He hides a smiling face.

The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged - William Cowper Quotes

The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged

They that fight for freedom undertakeThe noblest cause mankind can have at stake. - William Cowper Quotes

They that fight for freedom undertakeThe noblest cause mankind can have at stake.

A patriot's blood,Well spent in such a strife, may earn indeed,And for a time ensure to his loved land,The sweets of liberty and equal laws;But martyrs struggle for a brighter prize,And win it with more pain. Their blood is shedIn confirmation of the noblest claim --Our claim to feed upon immortal truth,To walk with God, to be divinely free,To soar, and to anticipate the skies.Yet few remember them. - William Cowper Quotes

A patriot's blood,Well spent in such a strife, may earn indeed,And for a time ensure to his loved land,The sweets of liberty and equal laws;But martyrs struggle for a brighter prize,And win it with more pain. Their blood is shedIn confirmation of the noblest claim --Our claim to feed upon immortal truth,To walk with God, to be divinely free,To soar, and to anticipate the skies.Yet few remember them.

I would not enter in my list of friends, Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path, But he has the humanity, forewarned, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live. - William Cowper Quotes

I would not enter in my list of friends, Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path, But he has the humanity, forewarned, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live.

Friends Or Friendship

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