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“His wit invites you by his looks to come,
But when you knock it never is at home.”

William Cowper

Source: Conversation (1782), Line 303.

“Prove that you have human feelings,
Ere you proudly question ours!”

William Cowper

Source: The Negro's Complaint (1788), Lines 55-56

“Transforms old print
To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes
Of gallery critics by a thousand arts.”

William Cowper The Task

Source: The Task (1785), Book II, The Timepiece, Line 363.

“Oh that those lips had language! Life has pass'd
With me but roughly since I heard thee last.”

William Cowper

On the Receipt of my Mother's Picture.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Though on pleasure she was bent,
She had a frugal mind.”

William Cowper

St. 8.
The Diverting History of John Gilpin (1785)

“Behind a frowning providence
He hides a smiling face.”

William Cowper

No. 35, "Light Shining out of Darkness".
Olney Hymns (1779)

“But strive still to be a man before your mother.”

William Cowper

Connoisseur. Motto of No. iii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Presume to lay their hand upon the ark
Of her magnificent and awful cause.”

William Cowper The Task

Source: The Task (1785), Book II, The Timepiece, Line 231.

“But Conversation, choose what theme we may,
And chiefly when religion leads the way,
Should flow, like waters after summer show'rs,
Not as if raised by mere mechanic powers.”

William Cowper

Source: Conversation (1782), Line 703.

“United yet divided, twain at once:
So sit two kings of Brentford on one throne.”

William Cowper The Task

Source: The Task (1785), Book I, The Sofa, Line 77.

“And the tear that is wiped with a little address,
May be follow'd perhaps by a smile.”

William Cowper

The Rose.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“I am out of humanity's reach.
I must finish my journey alone,
Never hear the sweet music of speech;
I start at the sound of my own.”

William Cowper

Source: Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk (1782), Line 9.

“As when around the clear bright moon, the stars
Shine in full splendor, and the winds are hush'd,
The groves, the mountain-tops, the headland-heights
Stand all apparent, not a vapor streaks
The boundless blue, but ether open'd wide
All glitters, and the shepherd's heart is cheer'd.”

William Cowper

The Iliad of Homer: translated into English blank verse (1791), Book VIII, line 643.

“Thus neither the praise nor the blame is our own.”

William Cowper

"From a Letter to the Rev. Mr. Newton", line 21. (1782).

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

William Cowper

"Hope, like the short-lived ray that gleams awhile", line 35.

“Visits are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not that, would do nothing.”

William Cowper

Letter to the Rev. John Johnson, (29 September1793).

“Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.”

William Cowper Retirement

Source: Retirement (1782), Line 623.

“So manifold, all pleasing in their kind,
All healthful, are the employs of rural life,
Reiterated as the wheel of time,
Runs round; still ending, and beginning still.”

William Cowper The Task

Source: The Task (1785), Book III, The Garden, Line 624.

“I shall not ask Jean Jacques Rousseau
If birds confabulate or no.”

William Cowper

Pairing Time Anticipated.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Oh! for a closer walk with God,
A calm and heav'nly frame;
A light to shine upon the road
That leads me to the Lamb!”

William Cowper

No. 1, "Walking With God".
Olney Hymns (1779)