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• O Solitude! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face?
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk...
• But the sound of the church-going bell These valleys and rocks never heard
  Ne'er sigh'd at the sound of a knell, Or smiled when a Sabbath appear'd....
• How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk...
• Tis hard if all is false that I advance. A fool must now and then be right by chance.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Conversation, Line 96...
• England, with all thy faults I love thee still, My country!
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book ii, The Timepiece, Line 206...
• But say my verses do not scan, And I get me another man!
• I cannot talk with civet in the room, A fine puss-gentleman that 's all perfume.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Conversation, Line 283...
• If I don't know your name, how am I supposed to tell my diary about you?
• A morsel for a monarch. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Antony and Cleopatra -- Act i, Sc. 5