William Cowper

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful…

Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God…

The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change…

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose…

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too…

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little we owe it everything. The only…

How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has…

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much wisdom is humble that it knows no…

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in…

Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay…

They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed…

Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor…

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair…

Wisdom is humble that he knows no more…