Pleasure Quotes by William Cowper

Ever let the Fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home.

— William Cowper

There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.

— William Cowper

Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain.

— William Cowper

Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.

— William Cowper

Thus always teasing others, and days teas'd, His only pleasure is to be displeas'd

— William Cowper

Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.

— William Cowper

Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.

— William Cowper

Religion does not censure or exclude Unnumbered pleasures, harmlessly pursued.

— William Cowper

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

— William Cowper

Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne.…

— William Cowper

Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies…

— William Cowper

Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.

— William Cowper