William Cowper Quotes About Giving

• La variedad es el condimento de la vida, que le da todo su sabor.

  William Cowper

  Vida, Dar, Inspirar

  La Tarea bk. 2 "El Reloj" l. 606 (1785) Ver Behn 1

• 'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.

  William Cowper

  Weed, Wisdom, Flower

  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.271

• Las pruebas hacen dulce la promesa, Las pruebas dan nueva vida a la oración; Las pruebas me traen a Sus pies, Me abaten, y me mantienen allí.

  William Cowper

  Dulce, Oración, Pies

  William Cowper (1851). "Las obras de William Cowper: Su vida, cartas y poemas. Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence", p.664

• To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.

  William Cowper

  Get Well, Recovery, Keys

  William Cowper (1851). “The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems. Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence”, p.15

• Nature, exerting an unwearied power,
  Forms, opens, and gives scent to every flower;
  Spreads the fresh verdure of the field, and leads
  The dancing Naiads through the dewy meads.

  William Cowper

  Nature, Flower, Giving

  William Cowper (1855). “The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings”, p.14

• Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appear'd, And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard: To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give a Milton birth, ask'd ages more.

  William Cowper

  Swans, Giving, Age

  William Cowper, Henry Stebbing, Giovanni Battista Andreini (1854). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper, Esq: Including the Hymns and Translations from Madame Guion, Milton, Etc., and Adam; a Sacred Drama”, p.40

• Aquí la meditación puede reducir las horas a momentos. Aquí el corazón puede dar una lección útil a la cabeza y el aprendizaje más sabio crecer sin sus libros.

  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

• A story, in which native humour reigns, Is often useful, always entertains; A graver fact, enlisted on your side, May furnish illustration, well applied; But sedentary weavers of long tales Give me the fidgets, and my patience fails.

  William Cowper

  Illustration, Your Side, Long

  William Cowper (1855). “The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings”, p.86

• Heaven speed the canvas, gallantly unfurl'd, To furnish and accommodate a world, To give the Pole the produce of the sun, And knit the unsocial climates into one.

  William Cowper

  Giving, Heaven, Climate

  William Cowper (1855). “The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings”, p.71

• There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.

  William Cowper

  Men, Giving, Grace

  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.114

• Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor; And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away.

  William Cowper

  Giving, Contentment, Rich

  William Cowper (1854). “Poetical works of William Cowper (with selections from the works of Robert Lloyd [and others]) ed. by R. Bell”, p.58

• In the vast, and the minute, we see
  The unambiguous footsteps of the God,
  Who gives its lustre to an insect's wing
  And wheels His throne upon the rolling worlds.

  William Cowper

  Wings, Giving, Rolling

  William Cowper (1855). “The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems : Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence”, p.594

• Without one friend, above all foes, Britannia gives the world repose.

  William Cowper

  Giving, World, England

  William Cowper (1855). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life, and Critical Notice of His Writings. Eight Engravings on Steel”, p.370

• El bazo rara vez se siente donde reina Flora;
  Los ojos bajos, la petulancia, el ceño fruncido,
  y la tristeza hosca, que ensombrecen, distorsionan,
  y estropean el rostro de la belleza, cuando no hay causa
  Para tan inconmensurable aflicción aparece;
  Flora los destierra, y da a la bella
  Dulces sonrisas y flores menos pasajeras que las suyas.

  William Cowper

  Sweet, Sadness, Eye

  William Cowper, James Sambrook (2016). “William Cowper: The Task and Selected Other Poems”, p.72, Routledge

• The Frenchman, easy, debonair, and brisk, Give him his lass, his fiddle, and his frisk, Is always happy, reign whoever may, And laughs the sense of mis'ry far away.

  William Cowper

  Giving, Laughing, May

  William Cowper (1866). “The Poetical Works of William Cowper”, p.26

• Sacred interpreter of human thought,
  How few respect or use thee as they ought!
  But all shall give account of every wrong,
  Who dare dishonor or defile the tongue;
  Who prostitute it in the cause of vice,
  Or sell their glory at a market-price!

  William Cowper

  Giving, Vices, Use

  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.40

• 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

  Otoño, Hombres, Dar

  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

• The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort, Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style, Give truth a lustre, and make wisdom smile.

  William Cowper

  Sports, Reading, Giving

  William Cowper (1855). “The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings”, p.113

• All zeal for a reform, that gives offence To peace and charity, is mere pretence.

  William Cowper

  Giving, Reform, Charity

  William Cowper (1872). “Table talk, Truth, Expostulation, Hope, Charity, and other poems”, p.108

• Una gloria dora la página sagrada, Majestuosa como el sol, Da una luz a cada época, Da, pero no pide prestado.

  William Cowper

  Light, Giving, Age

  William Cowper (1855). "Las obras de William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems : Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence", p.677

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