Quote: The parson knows enough who knows a Duke. [William Cowper]
Quote: The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow. [William Cowper]
Quote: A fool must now and then be right, by chance. [William Cowper]
Quote: Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees. [William Cowper]
Quote: Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will. [William Cowper]
Quote: The man that hails you Tom or Jack, and proves by thumps upon your back how he esteems your merit, is such a friend, that one had need be very much his friend indeed to pardon or to bear it. [William Cowper]
Quote: Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt. [William Cowper]
Quote: Visitors are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not visit, would do nothing. [William Cowper]
Quote: Fanaticism soberly defined, is the false fire of an over heated mind. [William Cowper]
Quote: How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home. [William Cowper]
Quote: Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more. [William Cowper]
Quote: Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more. [William Cowper]
Quote: The darkest day, If you live till tomorrow will have past away. [William Cowper]
Quote: 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]
Quote: A life of ease is a difficult pursuit. [William Cowper]
Quote: The life of ease is a difficult pursuit. [William Cowper]
Quote: God made the country and man made the town. [William Cowper]
Quote: It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme. [William Cowper]
Quote: A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator. [William Cowper]
Quote: Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God. [William Cowper]
Quote: No one was ever scolded out of their sins. [William Cowper]
Quote: I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum? [William Cowper]
Quote: Remorse begets reform. [William Cowper]
Quote: Religion! what treasure untold resides in that heavenly word! [William Cowper]
Quote: 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]