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• God made the country, and man made the town.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book i, The Sofa, Line 749...
• Doing good, Disinterested good, is not our trade.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book i, The Sofa, Line 673...
• United yet divided, twain at once: So sit two kings of Brentford on one throne.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book i, The Sofa, Line 77...
• Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book i, The Sofa, Line 181...
• I burn to set the imprison'd wranglers free, And give them voice and utterance once again.
  Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate So let us welcome peaceful evening in....
• 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...
• Praise enough To fill the ambition of a private man, That Chatham's language was his mother tongue.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book ii, The Timepiece, Line 235...
• England, with all thy faults I love thee still, My country!
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book ii, The Timepiece, Line 206...
• 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....