"There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on company
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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 and leave it alone."

Quincey, Thomas De on solitude
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"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on solitude
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"The fool needs company, the wise solitude."

Ruckett on fools and foolishness
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"If you would live innocently, seek solitude."

Syrus, Publilius on innocence
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"Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god."

Bacon, Francis on solitude
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"The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the same inner correspondence and difference as do solitude and community. One does not exist without the other. Right speech comes out of silence, and right silence comes out of speech."

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich on solitude
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"The right to be alone -- the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized man."

Brandeis, Louis D. on solitude   

"Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily."

Brisbane, Arthur on solitude
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"History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion."

Carlyle, Thomas on solitude
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"If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry."

Chekhov, Anton on solitude
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"Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong."

Churchill, Winston on solitude
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"Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encounter with yourself can be altogether sterile: Something necessarily emerges, even if only the hope of some day meeting yourself again."

Cioran, E. M. on solitude
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"I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity."

Einstein, Albert on solitude
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"Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on solitude
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"By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear. Dare to look in thy chest; for 'Tis thine own: And tumble up and down what thou findst there. Who cannot rest till he good fellows find, he breaks up house, turns out of doors his mind."

Herbert, George on solitude
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"Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression."

Home, Henry on solitude
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"The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude."

Huxley, Aldous on solitude
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"Though the most beautiful creature were waiting for me at the end of a journey or a walk; though the carpet were of silk, the curtains of the morning clouds; the chairs and sofa stuffed with cygnet's down; the food manna, the wine beyond claret, the window opening on Winander Mere, I should not feel --or rather my happiness would not be so fine, as my solitude is sublime."

Keats, John on solitude
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"The thoughtful soul to solitude retires."

Khayyam, Omar on solitude
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"There is convincing evidence that the search for solitude is not a luxury but a biological need. Just as humans posses a herding instinct that keeps us close to others most of the time, we also have a conflicting drive to seek out solitude. If the distance between ourselves and others becomes too great, we experience isolation and alienation, yet if the proximity to others becomes too close, we feel smothered and trapped."

Kottler, Jeffrey on solitude
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"A solitude is the audience-chamber of God."

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"Solitude is as needed to the imagination as society is wholesome to the character."

Lowell, James Russell on solitude
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"Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous- to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd."

Mann, Thomas on solitude
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"Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity."

Ovid on solitude
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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."

Percival, Lord on solitude
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"Shakespeare, Leonardo Da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, and Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio, or looked at a TV They had loneliness and knew what to do with it. They were not afraid of being lonely because they knew that was when the creative mood in them would mark."

Sa, Carl on solitude
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"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on solitude
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"Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones."

Smith, Sydney on solitude
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"In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself."

Sterne, Laurence on solitude
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"I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone, I never found the companionable as solitude."

Thoreau, Henry David on solitude
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"If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment."

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"Solitude is the despair of fools, the torment of the wicked, and the joy of the good."

Unknown, Source on solitude
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"When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign in solitude."

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"Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self."

Sarton, May on solitude
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"Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time."

Chambers, Oswald on faith
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"They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love."

Shakespeare, William on love
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"Two things reduce prejudice: education and laughter."

Peter, Laurence J. on prejudice
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"Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on relationship
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"The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope."

Benjamin, Walter on relationship
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