William Cowper Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• For when was public virtue to be found
  Where private was not?

  William Cowper

  Liberty, Virtue, Found

  "The Life and Works of William Cowper: Now First Completed by the Introduction of His "Private Correspondence."".

• The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.

  William Cowper

  Inspirational, Flower, Treasure

  William Cowper (1856). “The task, Table talk, and other poems: With critical observations of various authors on his genius and character, and notes, critical and illustrative”, p.186

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

  William Cowper

  Pain, Vices, Virtue

• Good sense, good health, good conscience, and good fame,--all these belong to virtue, and all prove that virtue has a title to your love.

  William Cowper

  Titles, Virtue, Fame

  William Cowper, Robert Southey (1854). “The Works: Comprising His Poems, Correspondence and Translations : in Eight Volumes. ¬The poetical works, Vol. 1”, p.119

• Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.

  William Cowper

  Fall, Men, Giving

  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.85

• Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.

  William Cowper

  Wisdom, Fall, Taken

  William Cowper (1835). “The Works of William Cowper: Table talk. The task. Tirocinium; or, A review of schools. Miscellaneous poems”, p.33

• Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
  Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame;
  He hides behind a magisterial air
  He own offences, and strips others' bare.

  William Cowper

  Light, Air, Flames

  William Cowper (1855). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life, and Critical Notice of His Writings. Eight Engravings on Steel”, p.78

• Did Charity prevail, the press would prove A vehicle of virtue, truth, and love.

  William Cowper

  And Love, Charity, Journalism

  William Cowper (1872). “Table talk, Truth, Expostulation, Hope, Charity, and other poems”, p.111

• The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.

  William Cowper

  Flower, Earth, Virtue

• The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.

  William Cowper

  Art, Passion, Poetry

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