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Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear. - Martin Luther King, Jr. I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. - Albert Einstein Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once. - Winston Churchill Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. - John F. Kennedy I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. - Abraham Lincoln The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. - Henry David Thoreau

There are three things a man must do alone. Be born, die, and testify.

- James J. Walker

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

- Winston Churchill

We never touch but at points.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was never less alone than when by myself.,

- Edward Gibbon

In the world a man lives in his own age; in solitude in all ages.

- W. Matthews

I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

- Henry David Thoreau

If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.

- Lord Byron

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

- James Russell Lowell

One can acquire everything in solitude but character.

- Stendhal

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

- Octavio Paz

It's a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night.

- Willie Sutton

We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

- Tennessee Williams

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

- Charles Caleb Colton

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

- Carl Sandburg

Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.

- Charles Dickens

Night, when words fade and things come alive, when the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

In solitude, when we are least alone.

- Lord Byron

We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.

- James Froude

Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.

- Thomas Gray

Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide, wide sea.

- Hartley Coleridge

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.

- William Cowper

The strongest man is the one who stands most alone.

- Henrik Ibsen

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

- James Russell Lowell

The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires.

- Omar Khayyam

I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

- Henry David Thoreau