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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a…
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Admirals extolled for standing still, or doing nothing with a deal of skill.
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War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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A noisy man is always in the right.
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and…
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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No one was ever scolded out of their sins.
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Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne.…
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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Strength may wield the ponderous spade, May turn the clod, and wheel the compost home; But elegance, chief grace the garden shows,…
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Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does…
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Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.
— Lord Byron
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Wisdom's self oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, where with her best nurse Contemplation, she plumes her feathers, and lets grow her…
— John Milton
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Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea…
— John Milton
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The strong grows in solitude where the weak withers away.
— Khalil Gibran
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I have found nothing half so good / As my long-planned half solitude, / Where I can sit up half the night…
— William Butler Yeats
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One must learn an inner solitude, where or with whomsoever he may be. He must learn to penetrate things and find God…
— Meister Eckhart
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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign…
— William Cowper
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In solitude, where we are least alone.
— Lord Byron
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When you meditate let your soul wander and seek out the peace and harmony for when you awaken form your slumber.....Your eyes…
— George Trujillo
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