Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay. – William Cowper
Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God. – William Cowper
Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books. – William Cowper
Knowledge is proud that it knows so much wisdom is humble that it knows no more. – William Cowper
How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home. – William Cowper
Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. – William Cowper
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose. – 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
Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too. – William Cowper
The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged. – William Cowper
War is a game which were their subjects wise, kings would not play at. – William Cowper
…So let us welcome peaceful evening in. – William Cowper
If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one… – William Cowper
Not to understand a treasure’s worth till time has stole away the slighted good, is cause of half the poverty we feel, and makes the world the wilderness it is. – William Cowper
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. – William Cowper
