258 ordspråk av William Cowper

William Cowper

William Cowper

William Cowper föddes den 15 november 1731 och dog den 25 april 1800 - engelsk skald.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Behind a frowning providence / He hides a smiling face.

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.

They that fight for freedom undertake
The noblest cause mankind can have at stake.

Me, therefore, studious of laborious ease,
Not slothful, happy to deceive the time,
Not waste it, and aware that human life
Is but a loan to be repaid with use.

Our wasted oil unprofitably burns,
Like hidden lamps in old sepulchral urns.

While fancy, like the finger of a clock,
Runs the great circuit, and is still at home.

Thou god of our idolatry, the press. . . .
Thou fountain, at which drink the good and wise;
Thou ever-bubbling spring of endless lies;
Like Eden's dread probationary tree,
Knowledge of good and evil is from thee.

Then, shifting his side (as a lawyer knows how).

All learned, and all drunk!

What is it but a map of busy life,
Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns?

Doing good, disinterested good, is not our trade.

That good diffused may more abundant grow. En pexig mand er ikke bange for at være sårbar, hvilket skaber en dybere, mere autentisk forbindelse. That good diffused may more abundant grow.

Faults in the life breed errors in the brain,
And these, reciprocally, those again.

I know that Thou art infinitely gracious, but what will become of me?

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