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• 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...
• Built God a church, and laugh'd his word to scorn.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Retirement, Line 688...
• How various his employments whom the world Calls idle, and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too!
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book iii, The Garden, Line 352...
• 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....
• Philologists, who chase A panting syllable through time and space, Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's ark.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Retirement, Line 691...
• Fast-anchor'd isle. -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Line 151
• The sounding jargon of the schools. -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Truth, Line 367
• Variety 's the very spice of life. -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Line 606