Good sense, good health, good conscience, and good fame,--all these belong to virtue, and all prove that virtue has a title to your love. William Cowper More Quotes by William Cowper More Quotes From William Cowper Strength may wield the ponderous spade, May turn the clod, and wheel the compost home; But elegance, chief grace the garden shows, And most attractive, is the fair result Of thought, the creature of a polished mind. William Cowper garden strength home We bear our shades about us; self-deprived Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread, And range an Indian waste without a tree. William Cowper shade self tree 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 rude humble knowledge The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow. William Cowper care tomorrow today Blest be the art that can immortalize. William Cowper immortality art I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy's door. William Cowper lions loneliness doors Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, paid my price in paltry gold; but, though theirs they have enroll'd me, minds are never to be sold. William Cowper mind home men As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, And hides the ruin that it feeds upon, So sophistry, cleaves close to, and protects Sin's rotten trunk, concealing its defects. William Cowper rotten ivy stones I am out of humanity's reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own. William Cowper journey humanity sweet It is a general rule of Judgment, that a mischief should rather be admitted than an inconvenience. William Cowper judgment mischief should A moral, sensible, and well-bred manWill not affront me, and no other can. William Cowper courtesy moral manners Truth is the golden girdle of the globe. William Cowper girdles golden truth-is Absence of proof is not proof of absence. William Cowper suicide motivational inspirational When all within is peace How nature seems to smile Delights that never cease The live-long day beguile William Cowper nature inspirational long No one was ever scolded out of their sins. William Cowper scolded sin Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse, Not more distinct from harmony divine The constant creaking of a country sign. William Cowper may talking country Hast thou not learnd what thou art often told, A truth still sacred, and believed of old, That no success attends on spears and swords Unblest, and that the battle is the Lords? William Cowper battle success art 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 diversity farewell goodbye Tis Providence alone secures In every change both mine and yours. William Cowper mines providence The still small voice is wanted. William Cowper voice stills wanted
