William Cowper

“Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.”

“Absence of proof is not proof of absence.”

“The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.”

“The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.”

“A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.”

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

“It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.”

“God made the country, and man made the town.”

“God moves in mysterious waysHis wonders to performs”

“How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.”

“Man disavows, and Deity disowns me;Hell might afford my miseries a shelter;Therefore Hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths allBolted against me.Hard lot! encompassed with a thousand dangers,Weary, faint, trembling with a thousand terrors,I'm called, if vanquished, to receive a sentenceWorse than Abiram's.Him the vindictive rod of angry JusticeSent quick and howling to the centre headlong;I, fed with judgement, in a fleshy tomb, amBuried above ground.”

“Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.”

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

“Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.”

“Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.”