“Here the heart
May give a useful lesson to the head,
And Learning wiser grow without his books.”

—  William Cowper , The Task

Source: The Task (1785), Book VI, Winter Walk at Noon, Line 85.

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(1731–1800) English poet and hymnodist 1731–1800

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