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Letter "W" » William Cowper Quotes
«The sounding jargon of the schools.»
«All zeal for a reform, that gives offenceTo peace and charity, is mere pretence.»
«One leg by truth supported, one by lies,They sidle to the goal with awkward pace,Secure of nothing -- but to lose the race.»
«Spare feast! a radish and an egg.»
«I cannot talk with civet in the room,A fine puss-gentleman that's all perfume.»
«. . . words, pregnant with celestial fire.»
«I crown thee king of intimate delights,Fire-side enjoyments, home-born happiness.»
«I never received a little pleasure from anything in my life; if I am pleased, it is in the extreme.»
Author: William Cowper
(Poet)
«Made poetry a mere mechanical art.»
Author: William Cowper
(Poet)
«Religion does not censure or excludeUnnumbered pleasures, harmlessly pursued.»
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