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• Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book iii, The Garden, Line 566...
• Great contest follows, and much learned dust.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book iii, The Garden, Line 161...
• 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...
• 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...
• There is a pleasure in poetic pains Which only poets know.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book ii, The Timepiece, Line 285...
• 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...
• 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...
• Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free!
  They touch our country, and their shackles fall....
• God made the country, and man made the town.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book i, The Sofa, Line 749...