William Cowper

Hast thou not learnd what thou art often told, A truth still sacred, and believed of old, That no success attends on…

— William Cowper

God forbid that Judges upon their oath should make resolutions to enlarge jurisdiction.

— William Cowper

Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.

— 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

Th' embroid'ry of poetic dreams.

— William Cowper

Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.

— William Cowper

Unless a love of virtue light the flame, Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial…

— William Cowper

If a great man struggling with misfortunes is a noble object, a little man that despises them is no contemptible one.

— William Cowper

I would not enter in my list of friends, Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the…

— William Cowper

Fancy, like the finger of a clock, Runs the great circuit, and is still at home.

— William Cowper

[My kitten] is dressed in a tortoise-shell suit, and I know you will delight in her.

— William Cowper

The beggarly last doit.

— William Cowper

If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a…

— 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

Lights of the world, and stars of human race.

— William Cowper

And diff'ring judgments serve but to declare that truth lies somewhere, if we knew but where.

— William Cowper

Dejection of spirits, which may have prevented many a man from becoming an author, made me one. I find constant employment necessary,…

— William Cowper

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

— William Cowper

God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.…

— William Cowper

How! leap into the pit our life to save? To save our life leap all into the grave.

— William Cowper

Time, as he passes us, has a dove's wing, Unsoil'd, and swift, and of a silken sound.

— William Cowper

There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk.

— William Cowper

Where thou art gone, adieus and farewells are a sound unknown.

— William Cowper

Then liberty, like day, Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from Heaven Fires all the faculties with glorious joy.

— William Cowper

The fall of waters and the song of birds, And hills that echo to the distant berds, Are luxuries excelling all the…

— William Cowper