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.
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Though you be absent here, I needs must say The trees as beauteous are, and flowers as gay, As ever they were wont to be.
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This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.
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Well then I now do plainly see the busy world and I shall ne'er agree.
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