Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. – William Cowper
It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme rudely appealed to on each trifling theme. – William Cowper
Visitors are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not visit, would do nothing. – William Cowper
Absence of proof is not proof of absence. – William Cowper
A fool must now and then be right, by chance. – William Cowper
The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow. – William Cowper
Candid and generous and just. Boys care but little whom they trust. An error soon corrected — for who but learns in riper years. That man, when smoothest he appears, is most to be suspected? – William Cowper
Unless a love of virtue light the flame, Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others bare. – William Cowper
I am monarch of all I survey,
My right there is none to dispute on;
but I wish that I could get away
And go home to the village of Bruton. – William Cowper
The path of sorrow and that path alone, leads to a land where sorrow is unknown. – William Cowper
Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a strangers treasures, o the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, paid my price in paltry gold; but, though theirs they have enrolld me, minds are never to be sold. – William Cowper
I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum? – William Cowper
Fanaticism soberly defined, is the false fire of an over heated mind. – William Cowper
Variety is the very spice of life that gives it all its flavour. – William Cowper
Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: hell might afford my miseries a shelter; therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all bolted against me. – William Cowper
Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid. – William Cowper
Remorse begets reform. – William Cowper
Varietys the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor. – William Cowper
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. – William Cowper
They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed. – William Cowper
