I never received a little pleasure from anything in my life if I am pleased, it is in the extreme.
More Quotes from William Cowper:
A life all turbulence and noise may seem To him that leads it wise and to be praised, But wisdom is a pearl with most success Sought in still waters.William Cowper
A firm persuasion of the superintendence of Providence over all our concerns is absolutely necessary to our happiness.
William Cowper
How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.
William Cowper
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.
William Cowper
But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast The breath of heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
William Cowper
The dogs did bark, the children screamed, Up flew the windows all; And every soul bawled out, Well done! As loud as he could bawl.
William Cowper
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