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• Some to the fascination of a name Surrender judgment hoodwink'd.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book vi, Winter Walk at Noon, Line 101...
• Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head, And Learning wiser grow without his books.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book vi, Winter Walk at Noon, Line 85...
• 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...
• Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
  Books are not seldom talismans and spells....
• 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...
• How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here we will sit and let the sounds of music Creep in our ea
  oft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony....
• The beggarly last doit.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book v, The Winter Morning Walk, Line 316...
• 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...
• 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...