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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  1. A mighty pain to love it is, And 't is a pain that pain to miss; But of all pains, the greatest pain It is to love, but love in vain.

  2. May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.

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  5. This only grant me that my means may lie too low for envy for contempt too high.

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