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• The beggarly last doit.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book v, The Winter Morning Walk, Line 316...
• As dreadful as the Manichean god, Adored through fear, strong only to destroy.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book v, The Winter Morning Walk, Line 444...
• 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...
• He is the freeman whom the truth makes free.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book v, The Winter Morning Walk, Line 733...
• Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor; And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book v, The Winter Morning Walk, Line 905...
• 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...
• 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...
• O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book iv, The Winter Evening, Line 120...
• 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...