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• Doing good, Disinterested good, is not our trade.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book i, The Sofa, Line 673...
• God made the country, and man made the town.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book i, The Sofa, Line 749...
• 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...
• 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....
• 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...
• England, with all thy faults I love thee still, My country!
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book ii, The Timepiece, Line 206...
• I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book vi, Winter Walk at Noon, Line 560...
• His head, Not yet by time completely silver'd o'er, Bespoke him past the bounds of freakish youth, But strong for service still, and unimpair'd.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book ii, The Timepiece, Line 702...