Visits are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not that, would do nothing. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Blest be the art that can immortalize,--the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Misses! the tale that I relate This lesson seems to carry-- Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Time, as he passes us, has a dove's wing, Unsoil'd, and swift, and of a silken sound. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Anticipated rents, and bills unpaid, Force many a shining youth into the shade, Not to redeem his time, but his estate, And… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
When I thinkof my own native land, In a moment I seem to be there; But alas! recollection at hand Soon hurries… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
How readily we wish time spent revoked, that we might try the ground again where once--through inexperience, as we now perceive--we missed… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Not to understand a treasure's worth till time has stole away the slighted good, is cause of half the poverty we feel,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Philologists, who chase A painting syllable through time and space Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark, To Gaul,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
It is a terrible thought, that nothing is ever forgotten; that not an oath is ever uttered that does not continue to… — 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
