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• Who with a body filled and vacant mind Gets him to rest, crammed with distressful bread.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), King Henry V -- Act iv, Sc. 1...
• 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...
• Never confuse an open mind with one that's vacant.
• The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book i, The Sofa, Line 506...
• He who boasts of an open mind may only have a vacant one.
• Many men boast of having an open mind, when it is only vacant.
• That though on pleasure she was bent, She had a frugal mind.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- History of John Gilpi...