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Testing oneself is best when done alone.
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family--but to a solitary and an exile his friends are every ...
Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
People who live alone always have something on their minds that they would willingly share.
There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature,
always try to go back into their shell like a herm
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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 altoge ...
I long for scenes where man has never trod A place where woman never smiled or wept There to abide with my Creator God And sleep a ...
Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide wide sea!
And never a saint took pity on
My soul in agony.
The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
Alone, I am satisfied with myself. With others, I am beset by troubling comparisons.
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