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"Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books."

William Cowper, English Poet

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"Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books."

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