William Cowper Quotes About Pain
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain.
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