England, with all thy faults I love thee still, My country! William Cowper More Quotes by William Cowper More Quotes From William Cowper Mansions once William Cowper bud father son 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 strong attitude men In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground. William Cowper buried tombs Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose. William Cowper nature happiness inspirational Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God. William Cowper nature names travel A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about. William Cowper heretic dear atheism There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot. William Cowper grace giving men Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day. William Cowper death looks Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain. William Cowper god-works-in-mysterious-ways vain blind A life of ease is a difficult pursuit. William Cowper ease happiness life They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed. William Cowper weed wisdom truth The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking. William Cowper rich bears thinking 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 the power to save. William Cowper easter atheist earth We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too. William Cowper turns dust death Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. William Cowper missing-you i-miss-you love To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think. William Cowper government eye thinking ...So let us welcome peaceful evening in. William Cowper evening peaceful night How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them. William Cowper proof prayer believe But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease. William Cowper modesty ease mean Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit. William Cowper authorship substitutes genius
