I Would Not Enter On My List Of Friends (Though Graced With Polish'd Manners And Fine Sense, Yet Wanting Sensibility) The Man Who Needlessly Sets Foot Upon A Worm.

Some to the fascination of a name Surrender judgment hoodwink'd.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book vi, Winter Walk at Noon, Line 101...
Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head, And Learning wiser grow without his books.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book vi, Winter Walk at Noon, Line 85...
Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
Books are not seldom talismans and spells....
There is in souls a sympathy with sounds; And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased With melting airs or martial, brisk or grave
Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies....
But war 's a game which were their subjects wise Kings would not play at.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book v, The Winter Morning Walk, Line 187...
The beggarly last doit.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book v, The Winter Morning Walk, Line 316...
With filial confidence inspired, Can lift to Heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say, My Father made them all!
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book v, The Winter Morning Walk, Line 745...
He is the freeman whom the truth makes free.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book v, The Winter Morning Walk, Line 733...
Silently as a dream the fabric rose, No sound of hammer or of saw was there.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book v, The Winter Morning Walk, Line 144...