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.

Quote by Abraham Cowley

Love without passion is dreary; passion without love is horrific.

Love without passion is dreary; passion without love is horrific.

His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was...

His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was...

For why / Should every creature drink but I, / Why, man of morals, tell...

For why / Should every creature drink but I, / Why, man of morals, tell...

Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.

Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.

Life is an incurable Disease

Life is an incurable Disease

Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.

Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.

Life is an incurable disease.

Life is an incurable disease.

A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss;...

A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss;...

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

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

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.

God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.

The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and gapes for drink again; The...

The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and gapes for drink again; The...

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

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

The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.

The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.

Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure.

Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure.

A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss;...

A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss;...

The world's a scene of changes, and to be Constant, in Nature were inconstancy

The world's a scene of changes, and to be Constant, in Nature were inconstancy