The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking. — William Cowper Bears Copy Share Image
No wisdom that she may gain by experience and reflection hereafter, will compensate the loss of her present hilarity. — William Cowper Cat Copy Share Image
Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit. — William Cowper Authorship Copy Share Image
Go, mark the matchless working of the power That shuts within the seed the future flower; Bids these in elegance of form… — William Cowper Beauty Copy Share Image
Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will. — William Cowper Compassion Copy Share Image
A lawyer's dealings should be just and fair; Honesty shines with great advantage there. — William Cowper Advantage Copy Share Image
I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy's door. — William Cowper Doors Copy Share Image
I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man… — William Cowper Animal - rights Copy Share Image
True modesty is a discerning grace And only blushes in the proper place; But counterfeit is blind, and skulks through fear, Where… — William Cowper Blind Copy Share Image
Some write a narrative of wars and feats, Of heroes little known, and call the rant A history. — William Cowper Feats Copy Share Image
Scenes must be beautiful which daily view'd Please daily, and whose novelty survives Long knowledge and the scrutiny of years. — William Cowper Beautiful Copy Share Image
The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs. — William Cowper Nurse Copy Share Image
All affectation; 'tis my perfect scorn; Object of my implacable disgust. — William Cowper Disgusting Copy Share Image
The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth. — William Cowper Earth Copy Share Image
Friends, books, a garden, and perhaps his pen, Delightful industry enjoy'd at home, An Nature, in her cultivated trim Dress'ed to his… — William Cowper Book Copy Share Image
The Frenchman, easy, debonair, and brisk, Give him his lass, his fiddle, and his frisk, Is always happy, reign whoever may, And… — William Cowper Always happy Copy Share Image
Fate steals along with silent tread, Found oftenest in what least we dread; Frowns in the storm with angry brow, But in… — William Cowper Angry Copy Share Image
Religion! what treasure untold resides in that heavenly word! — William Cowper Heavenly Copy Share Image
A Christian's wit is offensive light, A beam that aids, but never grieves the sight; Vig'rous in age as in the flush… — William Cowper Active Copy Share Image
Good sense, good health, good conscience, and good fame,--all these belong to virtue, and all prove that virtue has a title to… — William Cowper Character Copy Share Image
