William Cowper Quotes
1731 – 1800
English poet and hymnwriter, author of "The Task".
21 quotesAbout William Cowper on Wikipedia
“The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the lands where sorrow is unknown.”
“Domestic happiness, thou only bliss of Paradise that has surviv'd the fall!”
“Absence of occupation is not rest, / A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.”
“An idler is a watch that wants both hands; / As useless when it goes as when it stands.”
“Men deal with life as children with their play, / Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.”
“Thus happiness depends, as Nature shows, / Less on exterior things than most suppose.”
“How much a dunce that has been sent to roam / Excels a dunce that has been kept at home.”
“O tell me I yet have a friend, / Though a friend I am never to see.”
“Skins may differ, but affection / Dwells in white and black the same.”
“'Tis Providence alone secures / In every change both mine and yours.”
“Shine by the side of every path we tread / With such a luster, he that runs may read.”
“Beware of desp'rate steps! The darkest day / (Live till tomorrow) will have passed away.”
