William Cowper Quotes About Pain

Quotes about: Pain

• Grief is itself a medicine.

  William Cowper

  Death, Pain, Grief

  Charity

• There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.

  William Cowper

  Pain, Poetry, Poetic

  'The Task' (1785) bk. 2 'The Timepiece' l. 285

• Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain.

  William Cowper

  Sports, Pain, Hunting

  'The Task' (1785) bk. 3 'The Garden' l. 326 (on hunting)

• And in that hour,
  The seeds of cruelty, that since have swell'd
  To such gigantic and enormous growth,
  Were sown in human nature's fruitful soil.
  Hence date the persecution and the pain
  That man inflicts on all inferior kinds,
  Regardless of their plaints.

  William Cowper

  Pain, Men, Animal

  William Cowper (1872). “The poetical works of William Cowper: Complete ed., with memoir, explanatory notes etc”, p.318

• I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain, And bear the marks upon a blushing face, OF needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace.

  William Cowper

  Pain, Men, Self

  William Cowper (1811). “Poems”, p.237

• They fix attention, heedless of your pain,
  With oaths like rivets forced into the brain;
  And e'en when sober truth prevails throughout,
  They swear it, till affirmance breeds a doubt.

  William Cowper

  Pain, Doubt, Brain

  William Cowper (1853). “The Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life ; Six Engravings on Steel”, p.83

• Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.

  William Cowper

  Pain, Vices, Virtue

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