William Cowper Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.

  William Cowper

  God, Heart, Men

  William Cowper, “The Task: Book Vi. -- The Winter Walk At Noon”

• There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies.

  William Cowper

  Music, Heart, Air

  William Cowper (1822). “The poems of William Cowper”, p.136

• But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought Of freedom, in that hope itself possess All that the contest calls for; spirit, strength, The scorn of danger, and united hearts, The surest presage of the good they seek.

  William Cowper

  Heart, Glowing, Liberty

  William Cowper (1855). “The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings”, p.186

• With spots quadrangular of diamond form, ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, and spades, the emblems of untimely graves.

  William Cowper

  Heart, Gambling, Typical

  William Cowper, Robert Southey, William Harvey (1835). “The Works of William Cowper: Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations. With a Life of the Author”, p.42

• Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.

  William Cowper

  Yoga, Book, Heart

  William Cowper, Robert Southey (1836). “The Works of William Cowper, Esq., Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations: With a Life of the Author”, p.234

• O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?

  William Cowper

  Sweet, Heart, Men

  William Cowper, James Thomson (1832). “The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson”, p.67

• Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the play-place of our early days; The scene is touching, and the heart is stone, That feels not at that sight, and feels at none.

  William Cowper

  Heart, Sight, Play

  William Cowper (1790). “Poems: by William Cowper, ... In two volumes. ...”, p.237

• The parable of the prodigal son, the most beautiful fiction that ever was invented; our Saviour's speech to His disciples, with which He closed His earthly ministrations, full of the sublimest dignity and tenderest affection, surpass everything that I ever read; and like the spirit by which they were dictated, fly directly to the heart.

  William Cowper

  Bible, Beautiful, Heart

  William Cowper (1862). “Letters of William Cowper; being a selection from his correspondence: with a sketch of his life, and biographical notices of his correspondents. [With a portrait.]”, p.54

• They love the country, and none else, who seek
  For their own sake its silence and its shade.
  Delights which who would leave, that has a heart
  Susceptible of pity, or a mind
  Cultured and capable of sober thought.

  William Cowper

  Country, Heart, Silence

  William Cowper, James Thomson (1832). “The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson”, p.73

• There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart; he does not feel for man.

  William Cowper

  Heart, Men, Doe

  William Cowper, James Sambrook (2016). “William Cowper: The Task and Selected Other Poems”, p.111, Routledge

• Oh, popular applause! what heart of man
  Is proof against thy sweet seducing charms?
  The wisest and the best feel urgent need
  Of all their caution in thy gentlest gales;
  But swell'd into a gust--who then, alas!
  With all his canvas set, and inexpert,
  And therefore, heedless, can withstand thy power?

  William Cowper

  Sweet, Heart, Men

  William Cowper, James Sambrook (2016). “William Cowper: The Task and Selected Other Poems”, p.100, Routledge

• He that attends to his interior self,
  That has a heart, and keeps it; has a mind
  That hungers, and supplies it; and who seeks
  A social, not a dissipated life,
  Has business.

  William Cowper

  Business, Heart, Self

  William Cowper (1855). “The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings”, p.155

• I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.

  William Cowper

  Heart, Men, Hands

  William Cowper, John William Cunningham, William Hayley (1835). “The Life and Works of William Cowper: His life and letters by William Hayley. Now first completed by the introduction of Cowper's private correspondence”, p.391

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