Sweet Quotes by William Cowper

The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.

— William Cowper

Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep…

— William Cowper

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

— William Cowper

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

— William Cowper

I am out of humanity's reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of…

— William Cowper

What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never…

— William Cowper

How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is…

— William Cowper

Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.…

— 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

How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at interval upon the ear In cadence sweet; now dying all away, Now…

— William Cowper

Come, evening, once again, season of peace; Return, sweet evening, and continue long! Methinks I see thee in the streaky west, With…

— William Cowper

The spleen is seldom felt where Flora reigns; The low'ring eye, the petulance, the frown, And sullen sadness, that o'ershade, distort, And…

— William Cowper

The statesman, lawyer, merchant, man of trade Pants for the refuge of some rural shade, Where all his long anxieties forgot Amid…

— William Cowper