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• Than a successive title long and dark, Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's ark.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Absalom and Achitophel, Part i, Line 301...
• Presume to lay their hand upon the ark Of her magnificent and awful cause.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Line 231...
• But I am here! I am Dune! -- Noah, ARK IN SPACE
• Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Retirement, Line 623...
• A business with an income at its heels Furnishes always oil for its own wheels.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Retirement, Line 614...
• An idler is a watch that wants both hands, As useless if it goes as if it stands.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Retirement, Line 681...
• Built God a church, and laugh'd his word to scorn.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Retirement, Line 688...
• When you start to think that life is tough and you've got it hard, stop, reflect on being a deckhand on Noah's ark.
• I praise the Frenchman, How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude!
  But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper, Solitude is sweet....