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• Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true,-- A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Truth, Line 327...
• He is the freeman whom the truth makes free.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book v, The Winter Morning Walk, Line 733...
• Fast-anchor'd isle. -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Line 151
• Variety 's the very spice of life. -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Line 606
• Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Retirement, Line 623...
• A business with an income at its heels Furnishes always oil for its own wheels.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Retirement, Line 614...
• All learned, and all drunk!
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book iv, The Winter Evening, Line 478...
• A moral, sensible, and well-bred man Will not affront me,--and no other can.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Conversation, Line 193...
• An idler is a watch that wants both hands, As useless if it goes as if it stands.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Retirement, Line 681...