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William Cowper Quotes

«Elegant as simplicity, and warmAs ecstasy.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: ecstasy, elegant, simplicity
«Absence of proof is not proof of absence.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | About: Absence, Proof
«I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy's door.»
«Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.»
«Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: bigots, ceremony, Shadows of
«A hat not much the worse for wear.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: bad hat, hat
«Behind a frowning providence / He hides a smiling face.»
«The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | About: Earth | Keywords: desultory, indulged, novelty, studious, various
«To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.»
«They that fight for freedom undertakeThe noblest cause mankind can have at stake.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: noblest, stake, staked, undertake

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