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George Gordon Byron
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To fly from, need not be to hate, makind: All are not fit with them to stir and toil, Nor is it discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain.
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Charles Caleb Colton
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To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
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Willa Cather
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Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.
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William Cowper
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Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness,
Some boundless contiguity of shade,
Where rumour of oppression and deceit,
Of unsuccessful or successful war,
Might never reach me more.
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Joseph Roux
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Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.
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Henry David Thoreau
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The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till the other is ready, and it may be along time before they get off.
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Henry David Thoreau
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lon
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Miguel de Unamuno
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Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
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Israel Zangwill
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Oh, for the simple life,/For tents and starry skies!
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John Stuart Mill
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Solitude, in the sense of being often alone, is essential to any depth of meditation or of character and solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur, is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society could ill do without.
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Thomas De Quincey
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Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone all leave it alone.
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Amelia Barr
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...solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition...
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Miguel de Unamuno
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Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
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Miguel de Unanimo
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Only in solitude do we find ourselves and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
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Honore' de Balzac
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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Stendhal
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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Laurence Sterne
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Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.
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Vladimir Nabokov
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Solitude is the playfield of Satan.
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La Bruyere
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This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.
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Joseph Roux
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Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.
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Octavio Paz
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
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Publilius Syrus
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He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.
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Joseph Roux
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Solitude vivifies isolation kills.
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William Orville Douglas
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Solitude is the beginning of all freedom.
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Sir Thomas Browne
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Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
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Robert Browning
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Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
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Dag Hammarskjold
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Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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Henry David Thoreau
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I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
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Carl Sandburg
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One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
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MILTON: _Comus,_ Line 373.
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And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude.
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James Russell Lowell
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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
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Albert Einstein
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I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
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Johann von Goethe
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Talents are best nurtured in solitude character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
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MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. ix., Line 249.
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Solitude sometimes is best society, And short retirement urges sweet return.
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William Powell
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Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.
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Henry David Thoreau
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I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
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Colette
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There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
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Deepak Chopra
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To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.
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R.C. Gibbons
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I long for the solitude
of a sunset at sea,
and the chill of the breeze
coming in with the eve.
For the motion of my boat,
as she swings on her rode,
and the beauty of the stars,
in the evenings last glow.
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Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
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COWPER: _Verses supposed to be written by Alex. Selkirk,_ St. 1.
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O solitude! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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Eugenio Montale
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The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between the internal and the external, between the intellectual and the physical.
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Erica Jong
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Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.
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R. M. Grenon
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Goodbye, goodbye, I hate the word. Solitude has long since turned brown and withered, sitting bitter in my mouth and heavy in my veins.
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Peter Hoeg
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I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It's the light of grace for me. I never close my door behind me without the awareness that I am carrying out an act of mercy toward myself.
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Brenda Ueland
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I learned...that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.
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Henry David Thoreau
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lon
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Giacomo Leopardi
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Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the real world since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.
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Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh
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Only when one is connected to one's inner core is one connected to others. And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be re-found through solitude.
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Joseph Addison
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Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue
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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him
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Paul Johannes Tillich
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Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
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Joseph Addison
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Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.
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Andrew Schneider
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The fact that we don't know this man, isn't important really. Cause his experience is our experience, and his fate is our fate. Vani tass, vani tatum, et omni i vani tass, says the preacher. All is vanity I think that's a pretty good epitaph for all of us. When we're stripped of all our worldly possessions and all our fame, family, friends, we all face death alone. But it's that solitude in death that's our common bond in life. I know it's ironic, but that's just the way things are. Vani tass, vani tatum, et omni i vani tass. Only when we understand all is vanity, only then, it isn't.
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But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this Earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. The brilliant Costaguanaro of the boulevards had died from solitude and want of faith in himself and others.
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It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
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One can acquire everything in solitude, except character.
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Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity.
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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.
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In solitude especialy do we begin to appreciate the advantage of living with someone who can think.
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Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.
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Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
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A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
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...the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness, the independence of solitude.
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Talents are best nurtured in solitude; but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
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God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
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One hour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict - girding up its armor to meet the most insidious foe.
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The great omission in American life is solitude. . . that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit.
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In the desert a fountain is springing,
In the wide waste there still is a tree,
And a bird in the solitude singing,
Which speaks to my spirit of thee.
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One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaints, and crave neither for solitude nor yet for a crowd. Best of all, his life will be free from continual p
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The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.
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"Light is my companion, solitude my guide." - Sarah McLachlan
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"The night is my companion, and solitude my guide." - Sarah McLachlan
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A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Mi
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Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue,
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Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.
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