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• 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...
• Great contest follows, and much learned dust.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book iii, The Garden, Line 161...
• Domestic happiness, thou only bliss Of Paradise that has survived the fall!
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book iii, The Garden, Line 41...
• From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book iii, The Garden, Line 188...
• Doing good, Disinterested good, is not our trade.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book i, The Sofa, Line 673...
• Gloriously drunk, obey the important call.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book iv, The Winter Evening, Line 510...
• She that asks Her dear five hundred friends.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book ii, The Timepiece, Line 642...
• All learned, and all drunk!
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book iv, The Winter Evening, Line 478...
• God made the country, and man made the town.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book i, The Sofa, Line 749...