Quote

God forbid that Judges upon their oath should make resolutions to enlarge jurisdiction.

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
Judging
Upon
Jurisdiction
Make
Enlarge
Resolutions
Forbid
Oath
Judges
Resolution

More quotes by William Cowper

Image
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
Image
Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants each claiming truth, And truth disclaiming both.
William Cowper
Image
Call'd to the temple of impure delight He that abstains, and he alone, does right. If a wish wander that way, call it home He cannot long be safe whose wishes roam.
William Cowper
Image
A life all turbulence and noise may seem To him that leads it wise and to be praised, But wisdom is a pearl with most success Sought in still waters.
William Cowper
Image
Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
William Cowper
Image
The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow.
William Cowper
Image
Admirals extolled for standing still, or doing nothing with a deal of skill.
William Cowper
Image
What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wifeWhen friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
William Cowper
Image
All zeal for a reform, that gives offence To peace and charity, is mere pretence.
William Cowper
Image
When all within is peace How nature seems to smile Delights that never cease The live-long day beguile
William Cowper
Image
Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
William Cowper
Image
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
Image
Religion! what treasure untold resides in that heavenly word!
William Cowper
Image
A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic like the sun, It gives a light to every age, It gives, but borrows none.
William Cowper
Image
Where thou art gone, adieus and farewells are a sound unknown.
William Cowper
Image
Go, mark the matchless working of the power That shuts within the seed the future flower Bids these in elegance of form excel. In color these, and those delight the smell Sends nature forth, the daughter of the skies, To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
William Cowper
Image
Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
William Cowper
Image
Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
William Cowper
Image
If hindrances obstruct the way, Thy magnanimity display. And let thy strength be seen: But O, if Fortune fill thy sail With more than a propitious gale, Take half thy canvas in.
William Cowper
Image
Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
William Cowper