01c. 1765 ADCeremony leads her bigots forth, / Prepared to fight for shadows of no worth; / While truths, on which eternal things depend, / Find not, or hardly find, a single friend.William Cowper / quote ↗
02c. 1765 ADDefend me, common sense, say I, / From reveries so airy, from the toil / Of dropping buckets into empty wells, / And growing old with drawing nothing up.William Cowper / quote ↗
04c. 1765 ADDid charity prevail, the press would prove / A vehicle of virtue, truth, and love.William Cowper / quote ↗
05c. 1765 ADDomestic happiness! thou only bliss / Of happiness that has survived the Fall.William Cowper / quote ↗
06c. 1765 ADDream after dream ensues, / And still they dream that they shall still succeed / And still are disappointed.William Cowper / quote ↗
08c. 1765 ADFanaticism, soberly defined, / Is the false fire of an o'erheated mind.William Cowper / quote ↗
09c. 1765 ADFate steals along with silent tread, / Found oftenest in what least we dread; / Frowns in the storm with angry brow, / But in the sunshine strikes the blow.William Cowper / quote ↗
10c. 1765 ADFor 'tis a truth well known to most, / That whatsoever thing is lost, / We seek it, ere it comes to light, / In every cranny but the right.William Cowper / quote ↗
11c. 1765 ADGod never meant that man should scale the heavens / By strides of human wisdom.... He commands us in His Word / To seek Him rather where His mercy shines.William Cowper / quote ↗
12c. 1765 ADGrace abused brings forth the foulest deeds, / As richest soil the most luxuriant weeds.William Cowper / quote ↗
13c. 1765 ADGrace is a plant, where'er it grows / Of pure and heavenly root; / But fairest in the youngest shows, / And yields the sweetest fruit.William Cowper / quote ↗
14c. 1765 ADHe is the free man whom the truth makes free, / And all are slaves besides.William Cowper / quote ↗
15c. 1765 ADHe lives who lives to God alone, / And all are dead beside; / For other source than God is none / Whence life can be supplied.William Cowper / quote ↗
17c. 1765 ADI would not enter on my list of friends ... the man / Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.William Cowper / quote ↗
18c. 1765 ADIn every heart are sown the sparks that kindle fiery war; occasion needs but fan them, and they blaze.William Cowper / quote ↗
19c. 1765 ADJudge not the Lord by feeble sense, / But trust Him for His grace.William Cowper / quote ↗
20c. 1765 ADKnowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, / Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells / In heads replete with thoughts of other men; / Wisdom, in minds attentive to their own.William Cowper / quote ↗
21c. 1765 ADLabour like this our want supplies, / And they must stoop who mean to rise.William Cowper / quote ↗
22c. 1765 ADLands intersected by a narrow firth / Abhor each other. Mountains interposed / Make enemies of nations, which had else, / Like kindred drops, been mingled into one.William Cowper / quote ↗
23c. 1765 ADLearning itself, received into a mind / By nature weak or viciously inclined, / Serves but to lead philosophers astray, / Where children would with ease discern the way.William Cowper / quote ↗
