Solitude Quotes
These are some of the best 'Solitude' quotations and sayings.
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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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A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone.
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Amid the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, to hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, and roam along, the world's tired denizen, with none to bless us, none whom we can bless; this is to be alone; this, this is solitude.
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An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror.
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Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
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Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.
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great! by thy pure stream, or in thy waving shade, we count fair wisdom.
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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! but grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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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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I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
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I praise the Frenchman; his remark was shrewd, - "How sweet, how passing sweet is solitude." But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper - Solitude is sweet.
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I really only have Perfect Fun with myself. Other people won't stop and look at the things I want to look at or, if they do, they stop to please me or to humor me or to keep the peace.
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I was never less alone than when by myself.
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If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.
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If from society we learn to live, it is solitude should teach us how to die.
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In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself; in the world it seeks or accepts of a few treacherous supports - the feigned compassions of one, the flattery of a second, the civilities of a third, the friendship of a fourth; they all deceive, and bring the mind back to retirement, reflection, and books.
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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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It had been hard to have put more truth and untruth together in a few words than in that speech, Whosoever is delighted with solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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It has been from age to age an affectation to love the pleasure of solitude among those who cannot possibly be supposed qualified for passing life in that manner.
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