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Famous William Cowper Quotes
“Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.”
Source: Poems of William Cowper, Esq
“Where penury is felt the thought is chain'd, And sweet colloquial pleasures are but few.”
Source: William Cowper: The Task and Selected Other Poems
“Religion does not censure or exclude Unnumbered pleasures, harmlessly pursued.”
Source: Poems
Source: The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham
“Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.”
“There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.”
Source: The Works of Cowper and Thomson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country : with a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson
“Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.”
Source: The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings
“Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain.”