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"There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect."
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"One of the things you could do with your time is to convert it into a treasure and that treasure is called solitude."
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"I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative."
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"A: But why this solitude? - B: I am not at odds with anyone. But when I am alone I seem to see my friends in a clearer and fairer light than when I am with them; and when I loved and appreciated music the most, I lived far from it. It seems I need a distant perspective if I am to think well of things."
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"When you want to be alone, even few people around you will seem like a tremendous crowd to you!"
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"In solitude, you will find the soul."
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"When you understand that through the power of conversion in solitude you can become great, so many things you've been wasting your time on will no longer interest you. You will even run away from some friends."
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"Without solitude, we are overwhelmed by all the things we hope to do and all of the things we hope to do and all of the things we are planning and praying to do but we never really have the time to actually get down and get these things done."
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"An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him."
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"The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no one noticed them and they could be alone in them and be together."
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"I wish to spend a lifetime near a lighthouse where loneliness will be the glimmer of luminous prancing upon ocean waves, rising and falling only for my breathing."
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"If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police."
Friendship
"Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary."
Politics
"Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant."
Priority
"We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it."
Government
"It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face."
Love
"When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine."
Lie
"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
Being
"The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions."
Habit
"Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords."
Man
"The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye."
Friendship
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