Happiness Quotes by William Cowper

Oh winter, king of fire side enjoyments, home born happiness.

— William Cowper

Domestic happiness, thou only bliss Of paradise that has surviv'd the fall!

— William Cowper

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

— William Cowper

Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.

— William Cowper

Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.

— William Cowper

Where penury is felt the thought is chain'd, And sweet colloquial pleasures are but few.

— William Cowper

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

— William Cowper

Perhaps thou gav'st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.

— William Cowper

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for…

— William Cowper

O Winter! ruler of the inverted year, . . . I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And…

— William Cowper

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

Ten thousand casks, Forever dribbling out their base contents, Touch'd by the Midas finger of the state, Bleed gold for ministers to…

— William Cowper

I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fire-side enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturb'd retirement,…

— William Cowper

“Happy the bard, (if that fair name belong To him that blends no fable with his song) Whose lines uniting, by an…

— William Cowper