Best William Cowper Proverbs
- The dogs did bark, the children screamed, Up flew the windows all; And every soul bawled out, Well done! As loud as he could bawl. All
- The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow. Find
- An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting. Epigram
- How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home. Been
- It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme. Appealed
- Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God. Cause
- No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed. Enthusiasm
- Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid. Egg
- The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged. Change
- Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose. Depends
- God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs God
- There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or… Air
- Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay. Creep
- Visits are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not that, would do nothing. Devourers
- A life of ease is a difficult pursuit. Difficult
- Still ending, and beginning still. Beginning
- There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know. Only
- Made poetry a mere mechanic art. Art
- What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine? Anniversary
- The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is… Atheist
- Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time. Autumn
- Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. Humble
- For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost We seek it, ere it come to light, In every cranny but… Cranny
- I would not enter in my list of friends, Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls… Aside
- Thou god of our idolatry, the press. . . . Thou fountain, at which drink the good and wise; Thou ever-bubbling spring of endless lies;… Bubbling
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