Heart Quotes by William Cowper

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

— William Cowper

There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart; he does not feel for man.

— William Cowper

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

— William Cowper

With spots quadrangular of diamond form, ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, and spades, the emblems of untimely graves.

— William Cowper

I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That…

— William Cowper

Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the play-place of our early days; The scene is touching, and the…

— William Cowper

But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought Of freedom, in that hope itself possess All that the contest calls for; spirit,…

— William Cowper

He that attends to his interior self, That has a heart, and keeps it; has a mind That hungers, and supplies it;…

— William Cowper

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser…

— William Cowper

There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased With melting airs, or…

— William Cowper

They love the country, and none else, who seek For their own sake its silence and its shade. Delights which who would…

— William Cowper

Oh, popular applause! what heart of man Is proof against thy sweet seducing charms? The wisest and the best feel urgent need…

— William Cowper

The parable of the prodigal son, the most beautiful fiction that ever was invented; our Saviour's speech to His disciples, with which…

— William Cowper