WILLIAM COWPER QUOTES

Absence from whom we love is worse than death

I believe no man was ever scolded out of his sins.

Visits are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not that, would do nothing.

God moves in a mysterious way, his wonders to perform;

Blind unbelief is sure to err

I play with syllables and sport in song

Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

As if the world and they were hand and glove.

Thus happiness depends, as Nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

Nature, exerting an unwearied power forms, opens, and gives scent to every flower;