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.

Create free wallpaper (Make a wallpaper or screensaver out of this quote with your image)

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

---

Related Authors
Emily Bronte | Angela Carter | Aphra Behn | P.B. Shelley | Alphonse de Lamartine | Frederick Buechner | Daniel Webster | Alice Munro |

Related Quotes

A beautiful life does not just happen; it is built.

T. B. Joshua

Life Beautiful Happen Built

---

You SALUTE The RANK Not The MAN. CELEBRATE Your FRIEND Wey Get Pass You.

Small Doctor

The rank The man Celebrate Your friend

---

A single metaphor can give birth to love.

Milan Kundera

Single Metaphor Birth Love

---

Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.

Vladimir Nabokov

Angry Rain Know Fall

---

A clear conscience is the softest pillow in the world.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

Conscience Clear Softest World

---

What we wear is the shell of who we are.

Audrey Tautou

We wear The shell

---

You can't measure success if you have never failed.

Steffi Graf

You Measure Success Failed

---

Let us stop justifying every shortcoming with that unacceptable phrase ‘the Nigerian Factor’ as if to be a Nigerian is to settle for less

Umaru Musa Yar'Adua

Shortcoming Stop justifying Settle for less Nigerian

---

Change is always possible. A major catalyst to change is facing uncomfortable truths, leaning into them and realizing that tremendous effort is needed on a consistent and dedicated basis with the goal of improvement.

John Cena

Change Always possible Truths Effort

---

This pandemic is a rough road and the despair and long wait are leaks in our spiritual life that if not patched urgently, can make us lose our greatness.

Osagie Ize-Iyamu

Rough road Despair Spiritual life Greatness

---

When you reach an obstacle, turn it into an opportunity. You have the choice.

Mary Kay Ash

Reach Obstacle Opportunity Choice

---

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

Desiderius Erasmus

Driven out Habit Overcome

---

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. - Desiderius Erasmus quotes