“Variety's the very spice of life, that gives it all it's flavour.” — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Our love is principle, and has its root In reason, is judicious, manly, free. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“But it is a sort of April-weather life that we lead in this world. A little sunshine is generally the prelude to… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
What is it but a map of busy life, Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns? — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“Assail'd by scandal and the tongue of strife, His only answer was, a blameless life.” — William Cowper Copy Share Image
'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
How! leap into the pit our life to save? To save our life leap all into the grave. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
A life all turbulence and noise may seem To him that leads it wise and to be praised, But wisdom is a… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life's long race, Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
He that attends to his interior self, That has a heart, and keeps it; has a mind That hungers, and supplies it;… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
And hast thou sworn on every slight pretence, Till perjuries are common as bad pence, While thousands, careless of the damning sin, Kiss the… — William Cowper Copy Share
No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed. — William Cowper Copy Share
Admirals extolled for standing still, or doing nothing with a deal of skill. — William Cowper Copy Share
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose. — William Cowper Copy Share
Stamps God's own name upon a lie just made, To turn a penny in the way of trade. — William Cowper Copy Share
But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is… — William Cowper Copy Share
But conversation, choose what theme we may, And chiefly when religion leads the way, Should flow, like waters after summer show'rs, Not as if… — William Cowper Copy Share
“When we don't pray, we quit the fight. Prayer keeps the Christian's armor bright. And Satan trembles when he sees. The weakest saint upon… — William Cowper Copy Share
A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your… — William Cowper Copy Share
Ten thousand casks, Forever dribbling out their base contents, Touch'd by the Midas finger of the state, Bleed gold for ministers to sport away.… — William Cowper Copy Share
The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue. — William Cowper Copy Share
