William Cowper Quotes

God moves in mysterious waysHis wonders to performs

~ William Cowper

Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast,Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round,And, while the bubbling and loud hissing urnThrows up a steamy column and the cupsThat cheer but not inebriate, wait on each,So let us welcome peaceful ev'ning in.

~ William Cowper

There is in souls a sympathy with sounds:And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleasedWith melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave;Some chord in unison with what we hearIs touch'd within us, and the heart replies.

~ William Cowper

Man disavows, and Deity disowns me;Hell might afford my miseries a shelter;Therefore Hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths allBolted against me.Hard lot! encompassed with a thousand dangers,Weary, faint, trembling with a thousand terrors,I'm called, if vanquished, to receive a sentenceWorse than Abiram's.Him the vindictive rod of angry JusticeSent quick and howling to the centre headlong;I, fed with judgement, in a fleshy tomb, amBuried above ground.

~ William Cowper

The dearest idol I have known,Whate'er that idol be,Help me to tear it from thy throne,And worship only thee.So shall my walk be close with God,Calm and serene my frame;So purer light shall mark the roadThat leads me to the Lamb.

~ William Cowper

If the world like it not, so much the worse for them.

~ William Cowper

When we don't pray, we quit the fight. Prayer keeps the Christian's armor bright. And Satan trembles when he sees. The weakest saint upon his knees.

~ William Cowper

My fugitive years are all hasting away,And I must ere long lie as lowly as they,With a turf on my breast, and a stone at my head,Ere another such grove shall arise in its stead.'Tis a sight to engage me, if anything can,To muse on the perishing pleasures of man;Though his life be a dream, his enjoyments I see,Have a being less durable even than he.

~ William Cowper

He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.

~ William Cowper

The town is man's world but this (country life) is of God.

~ William Cowper

A fool must now and then be right by chance.

~ William Cowper

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

~ William Cowper

Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

~ William Cowper

A fool must now and then be right, by chance.

~ 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

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

~ William Cowper

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

~ William Cowper

No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.

~ William Cowper

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

~ William Cowper

They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.

~ William Cowper

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.

~ William Cowper

How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.

~ William Cowper