It had been hard for him that spake it to have put more truth and untruth together in few words, than in that speech, Whatsoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god. For it is most true, that a natural and secret hatred, and aversation towards society, in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast; but it is most untrue, that it should have any character at all, of the divine（神圣的） nature; except it proceed, not out of a pleasure in solitude, but out of a love and desire to sequester a man's self, for a higher conversation: such as is found to have been falsely and feignedly in some of the heathen; as Epimenides the Canadian, Numa the Roman, Empedocles the Sicilian, and Apollonius of Tyana, and truly and really, in divers of the ancient hermits and holy fathers of the church. But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little: Magna civitas , magna solitudo; because in a great town friends are scattered; so that there is not that fellowship, for the most part, which is in less neighborhoods. But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends; without which the world is but a wilderness; and even in this sense also of solitude, whosoever in the
A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fulness and swellings（膨胀） of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce. We know diseases of stoppings, and suffocations, are the most dangerous in the body; and it is not much otherwise in the mind; you may take sarza to open the liver, steel to open the spleen, flowers of sulphur for the lungs, castoreum（海狸香） for the brain; but no receipt openeth the heart, but a true friend; to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes, suspicions, counsels, and whatsoever lieth upon the heart to oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession.
相关单词：whatsoever
whatsoever解释：adv.（用于否定句中以加强语气）任何；pron.无论什么
whatsoever例句：
There's no reason whatsoever to turn down this suggestion.没有任何理由拒绝这个建议。
All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you,do ye even so to them.你想别人对你怎样，你就怎样对人。
相关单词：solitude
solitude解释：n. 孤独; 独居,荒僻之地,幽静的地方
solitude例句：
People need a chance to reflect on spiritual matters in solitude. 人们需要独处的机会来反思精神上的事情。
They searched for a place where they could live in solitude. 他们寻找一个可以过隐居生活的地方。
相关单词：hatred
hatred解释：n.憎恶，憎恨，仇恨
hatred例句：
He looked at me with hatred in his eyes.他以憎恨的眼光望着我。
The old man was seized with burning hatred for the fascists.老人对法西斯主义者充满了仇恨。
相关单词：savage
savage解释：adj.野蛮的；凶恶的，残暴的；n.未开化的人
savage例句：
The poor man received a savage beating from the thugs.那可怜的人遭到暴徒的痛打。
He has a savage temper.他脾气粗暴。
相关单词：sequester
sequester解释：vt.使退隐，使隔绝
sequester例句：
Everything he owned was sequestered.他的所有财产都被扣押了。
This jury is expected to be sequestered for at least two months.预计这个陪审团将至少被隔离两个月。
相关单词：divers
divers解释：adj.不同的；种种的
divers例句：
He chose divers of them,who were asked to accompany him.他选择他们当中的几个人，要他们和他作伴。
Two divers work together while a standby diver remains on the surface.两名潜水员协同工作，同时有一名候补潜水员留在水面上。
相关单词：hermits
hermits解释：（尤指早期基督教的）隐居修道士，隐士，遁世者( hermit的名词复数 )
hermits例句：
In the ancient China,hermits usually lived in hamlets. 在古代中国，隐士们通常都住在小村子里。
Some Buddhist monks live in solitude as hermits. 有些和尚在僻静处隐居。
相关单词：tinkling
tinkling解释：n.丁当作响声
tinkling例句：
I could hear bells tinkling in the distance. 我能听到远处叮当铃响。
To talk to him was like listening to the tinkling of a worn-out musical-box. 跟他说话，犹如听一架老掉牙的八音盒子丁冬响。 来自英汉文学
相关单词：cymbal
cymbal解释：n.铙钹
cymbal例句：
The piece ends with a cymbal crash.这支曲子以铙钹的撞击声结束。
Cymbal is a pair of round brass plates.铙钹是一对黄铜圆盘。
相关单词：adage
adage解释：n.格言，古训
adage例句：
But the old adage that men grow into office has not proved true in my experience.但是，根据我的经验，人们所谓的工作岗位造就人材这句古话并不正确。
Her experience lends credence to the adage " We live and learn!"她的经验印证了一句格言: 活到老，学到老！
相关单词：scattered
scattered解释：adj.分散的，稀疏的；散步的；疏疏落落的
scattered例句：
Gathering up his scattered papers,he pushed them into his case.他把散乱的文件收拾起来，塞进文件夹里。
相关单词：mere
mere解释：adj.纯粹的；仅仅，只不过
mere例句：
That is a mere repetition of what you said before.那不过是重复了你以前讲的话。
It's a mere waste of time waiting any longer.再等下去纯粹是浪费时间。
相关单词：miserable
miserable解释：adj.悲惨的，痛苦的；可怜的，糟糕的
miserable例句：
It was miserable of you to make fun of him.你取笑他，这是可耻的。
Her past life was miserable.她过去的生活很苦。
相关单词：wilderness
wilderness解释：n.杳无人烟的一片陆地、水等，荒漠
wilderness例句：
She drove the herd of cattle through the wilderness.她赶着牛群穿过荒野。
Education in the wilderness is not a matter of monetary means.荒凉地区的教育不是钱财问题。
相关单词：confession
confession解释：n.自白，供认，承认
confession例句：
Her confession was simply tantamount to a casual explanation.她的自白简直等于一篇即席说明。
The police used torture to extort a confession from him.警察对他用刑逼供。
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