“We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.”
William Cowper“If the world like it not, so much the worse for them.”
William Cowper, Letters of William Cowper“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.”
William Cowper, The Poetical Works Of William Cowper“God moves in mysterious waysHis wonders to performs”
William Cowper, The Poetical Works Of William Cowper“Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast,Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round,And, while the bubbling and loud hissing urnThrows up a steamy column and the cupsThat cheer but not inebriate, wait on each,So let us welcome peaceful ev'ning in.”
William Cowper, The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper“How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.”
William Cowper“Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.”
William Cowper