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Solitary Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favorable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad.
- Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached…
- If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
- I have ever since (his wife's death) seemed to myself broken off from mankind; a kind of solitary wanderer in the wild of life, without…
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- I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading. — Lynda Barry
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- True solidarity is only possible among the solitary. — Jose Bergamin
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- Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends… — Willa Cather
- Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. — Winston Churchill
- The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary. — Emile M. Cioran
- If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. — Maya Angelou
- We need the tonic of the wilderness, to wade sometimes in the marsh where the bitten and the meadow hen lurk, and… — Henry David Thoreau
- I have three messages," said the breathless Nyad."One is we should never ever give up. Two is you are never too old… — Diana Nyad
- A solitary maple on a woodside flames in single scarlet, recalls nothing so much as the daughter of a noble house dressed… — Henry James