"I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends."

Whitman, Walt on enemies
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"Where thou art, that is home."

Dickinson, Emily on home
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"A wounded deer leaps the highest."

Dickinson, Emily on adversity
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"To most people loneliness is a doom. Yet loneliness is the very thing which God has chosen to be one of the schools of training for His very own. It is the fire that sheds the dross and reveals the gold."

Martin, Bernard M. on loneliness
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"Of my friends I am the only one left."

Terence on loneliness
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"It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men."

Bruyere, Jean De La on action   

"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on solitude
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"One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad."

Hubbard, Elbert on joy
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"Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences."

Plato on wisdom
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"I want to be left alone."

Garbo, Greta on solitude
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"A writer who writes, I am alone... can be considered rather comical. It is comical for a man to recognize his solitude by addressing a reader and by using methods that prevent the individual from being alone. The word alone is just as general as the word bread. To pronounce it is to summon to oneself the presence of everything the word excludes."

Blanchot, Maurice on solitude
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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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"Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true."

Hill, Napoleon on dream
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"He who eats alone chokes alone."

Proverb, Arabian on food and eating
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"The worst solitude is to have no real friendships."

Bacon, Francis on friends and friendship
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"I wasted time, and now time doth waste me."

Shakespeare, William on age and aging
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"Oh, what a bitter thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes."

Shakespeare, William on envy
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"God had given you one face, and you make yourself another. [Hamlet]"

Shakespeare, William on faces
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"Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent."

Shakespeare, William on fame
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"The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits."

Shakespeare, William on fools and foolishness
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"A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow."

Shakespeare, William on friends and friendship
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"Patch grief with proverbs."

Shakespeare, William on grief
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"The miserable have no other medicine but only hope."

Shakespeare, William on hope
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"Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest."

Shakespeare, William on knowledge
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"It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear."

Bacon, Francis on fear
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"In contemplation, if a man begins with certainties he shall end in doubts; but if he be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties."

Bacon, Francis on doubt
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"People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus."

Proust, Marcel on love
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"Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life."

Shan, Merle on love
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"Lord, let me live until I die."

Rogers, Will on famous last words
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"The bashful are always aggressive at heart."

Cooley, Charles Horton on shyness   

"The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain extent, to communicate his misery. He frightens other people as much as they frighten him. He acts like a damper upon the whole room, and the most jovial spirits become, in his presence, depressed and nervous."

Jerome, Jerome K. on shyness   

"Shy and proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen."

Taylor, Sir Henry on shyness   

"The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly."

Wordsworth, William on flowers   

"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for."

Dowd, Maureen on acceptance
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"They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea."

Bacon, Francis on discovery
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"He who opens a school door, closes a prison."

Hugo, Victor on education
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"It was Greek to me."

Shakespeare, William on language   

"When a woman is speaking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes."

Hugo, Victor on listening
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"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves."

Hugo, Victor on love
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"Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent"

Hugo, Victor on music
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