Quote

Some people are more nice than wise.

William Cowper

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

William Cowper
Age: 68 †
Born: 1731
Born: November 26
Died: 1800
Died: April 25
Hymnwriter
Poet
Poet Lawyer
Translator
Writer
Berkhamsted
Hertfordshire
Wisdom
Nice
People
Wise

More quotes by William Cowper

Image
Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
William Cowper
Image
Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appear'd, And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard: To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give a Milton birth, ask'd ages more.
William Cowper
Image
Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
William Cowper
Image
Perhaps thou gav'st me, though unseen, a kiss Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
William Cowper
Image
The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
William Cowper
Image
Visits are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not that, would do nothing.
William Cowper
Image
Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
William Cowper
Image
The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
William Cowper
Image
Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time.
William Cowper
Image
E'er since, by faith, I saw the stream thy flowing wounds supply, redeeming love has been my theme, and shall be till I die.
William Cowper
Image
The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
William Cowper
Image
How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
William Cowper
Image
The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
William Cowper
Image
It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
William Cowper
Image
When from soft love proceeds the deep distress, ah! why forbid the willing tears to flow?
William Cowper
Image
Man in society is like a flow'r, Blown in its native bed. 'Tis there alone His faculties expanded in full bloom Shine out, there only reach their proper use.
William Cowper
Image
Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, but trust Him for His grace Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
William Cowper
Image
Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants each claiming truth, And truth disclaiming both.
William Cowper
Image
But animated nature sweeter still, to soothe and satisfy the human ear.
William Cowper
Image
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