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 | "A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in
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Aesop
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| "ALONE, adj. In bad company." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own
reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company." | |
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George Washington
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| "Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, ... but
delight to be alone and single with Omnipresency...." | |
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Sir Thomas Browne
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| "Don"t wish it were easier, wish you were better." | |
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Jim Rohn
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| "Even in the presence of others he was completely alone." | |
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Robert M. Pirsig
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| "Every now and again take a good look at something not made with
hands?a mountain, a star, the turn of a stream. There will come to you
wisdom and patience and solace and, above all, the assurance that you are
not alone in the world." | |
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Sidney Lovett
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| "For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which
he laughed at, than that which he approves and than that which he approves
and reveres." | |
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Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace
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| "Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom"d caves of
ocean bear; Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its
sweetness on the desert air." | |
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Thomas Gray
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| "I have been one acquainted with the night." | |
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Robert Frost
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| "Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep
alone." | |
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Anthony Burgess
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| "LINDBERGH FLIES ALONE Alone? Is he alone at whose right side rides
Courage, with Skill within the cockpit and faith upon the left? Does
solitude surround the brave when Adventure leads the way and Ambition
reads the dials? Is there no company with him, for whom the air is cleft
by Daring and the darkness made light by Emprise? True, the fragile bodies
of his fellows do not weigh down his plane; true, the fretful minds of
weaker men are missing from his crowded cabin; but as his airship keeps
its course he holds communion with those rare spirits that inspire to
intrepidity and by their sustaining potency give strength to arm, resource
to mind, content to soul. Alone? With what other companions would man fly
to whom the choice were given?" | |
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Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr.
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| "Man is never less sincere than when he asks, or offers, advice. When
he asks it, he seems to defer to the wisdom of his friend, but really he
seeks approval of his own opinion, and to make his friend responsible with
him for his actions. When he offers advice, he seems to repay the
confidence of his inquirer with disinterested zeal, while really seeking
to bolster his own advantage or reputation." | |
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François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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| "One can acquire everything in solitude but character." | |
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Marie Stendhal
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| "One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad." | |
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Elbert Hubbard
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| "One may have a blazing hearth in one"s soul and yet no one ever come
to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and
continue on the way." | |
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Vincent van Gogh
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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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Paul Tillich
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| "Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and
perilous - to poetry. But it also gives birth to the opposite: to the
perverse, the illicit, the absurd." | |
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Thomas Mann
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| "Solitude is as needful to the imagination As society is wholesome
for the character." | |
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James Russell Lowell
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| "The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.
Answering why he had not implemented organizational reforms after five
months when "God created the universe in seven days",1997" | |
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Kofi Annan
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| "The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the
crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one
has ever been." | |
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Alan Ashley-Pitt
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| "The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with
another must wait till that other is ready, and it may be a long time
before they get off." | |
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Henry David Thoreau
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| "The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all
freedom." | |
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William Orville Douglas
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| "The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He
examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may
have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself." | |
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Kung Fu-tzu Confucius
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| "They are never alone that are accompanied with noble
thoughts." | |
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Sir Philip Sidney
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| "Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are
never alone or weary of life." | |
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Rachel Louise Carson
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| "To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for
me." | |
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Charles William Stubbs
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| "Try to be the best of what you are, even if what you are is no
good." | |
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Ashleigh Brilliant
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| "We"re all in this alone." | |
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Lily Tomlin
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| "When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value
the only companion we will have from birth to death - ourselves." | |
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Eda LeShan
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| "When you have closed your doors, and darkened your room, remember
never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; God is within, and
your genius is within?and what need have they of light to see what you are
doing?" | |
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Epictetus
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| "You cannot be lonely if you like the person you"re alone
with." | |
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Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
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