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Quote by Abraham Cowley
I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness,

I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that…. I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature. – Abraham Cowley

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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity. – Abraham Cowley

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There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined youd be, the parent you always wished you had. Your job is to be the parent your child needs, given the particulars of his or her own life and nature. – Ayelet Waldman

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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. Thats the nature of America, I think. – Jerry Garcia

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Loki in Thor is the most incredible springboard into a sort of excavation of the darker aspects of human nature. So that was thrilling, coming back knowing that Id built the boat and now I could set sail into choppier waters. – Tom Hiddleston

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We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. – Albert Einstein

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