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• Welcome to the Current Middle Ages!
• Happiness depends, as Nature shows, Less on exterior things than most suppose.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Table Talk, Line 246...
• To create a little flower is the labour of ages.
• Nature, exerting an unwearied power, Forms, opens, and gives scent to every flowe
  Spreads the fresh verdure of the field, and leads The dancing Naiads through the dewy meads....
• How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown!
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Julius Caesar -- Act iii, Sc. 1...
• As if the world and they were hand and glove.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Table Talk, Line 173...
• Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy. -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Table Talk, Line 588
• Is base in kind, and born to be a slave. -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Table Talk, Line 28
• Low ambition and the thirst of praise. -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Table Talk, Line 591