Abraham Cowley's Quote - Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must hav

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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must hav

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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Life is an incurable Disease. – Abraham Cowley

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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion. – Abraham Cowley

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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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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours. – John Locke

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