William Cowper quotes

Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.

No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

God made the country, and man made the town.

A fool must now and then be right, by chance.

They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.

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

Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.