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• There goes the parson, O illustrious spark! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- On observing some Names of Little Note...
• Silently as a dream the fabric rose, No sound of hammer or of saw was there.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book v, The Winter Morning Walk, Line 144...
• 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....
• Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will. -- William Cowper (1731-1800)
• And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow'd perhaps by a smile.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Rose...
• That good diffused may more abundant grow.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Conversation, Line 443...
• Rush Limbaugh's theories would have worked in the 1800's ...maybe
• hirty-nine are mad. Well, they sound ideal. They would be if they hadn't all got married last week in Munich to the same horse.
  -- Edmund and Baldrick : Amy and Amiability...
• Shine by the side of every path we tread With such a lustre, he that runs may read.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Tirocinium, Line 79...