The life of ease is a difficult pursuit. William Cowper More Quotes by William Cowper More Quotes From William Cowper Mansions once William Cowper budfatherson 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 strongattitudemen In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground. William Cowper buriedtombs Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose. William Cowper naturehappinessinspirational Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God. William Cowper naturenamestravel A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about. William Cowper hereticdearatheism There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot. William Cowper gracegivingmen Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day. William Cowper deathlooks 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-waysvainblind A life of ease is a difficult pursuit. William Cowper easehappinesslife They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed. William Cowper weedwisdomtruth The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking. William Cowper richbearsthinking 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 easteratheistearth We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too. William Cowper turnsdustdeath Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. William Cowper missing-youi-miss-youlove To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think. William Cowper governmenteyethinking ...So let us welcome peaceful evening in. William Cowper eveningpeacefulnight 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 proofprayerbelieve But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease. William Cowper modestyeasemean Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit. William Cowper authorshipsubstitutesgenius
