For solitude is sometimes best society, And short retirement urges sweet return


John Milton

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A short retirement urges a sweet return.
JOHN MILTON
A short retirement urges a sweet return
JOHN MILTON
Solitude sometimes is best society.
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Solitude is often the best society
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[Milton Hope led the singing of] Happy Birthday ... He would say, 'Keep it sweet and short and don't...
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You don't know what you don't know
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Solitude is creativity's best friend, and solitude is refreshment for our souls.
NAOMI JUDD
Celestial light, shine inward...that I may see and tell of things invisible to mortal sight
JOHN MILTON
Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
I praise the Frenchman; his remark was shrewd,-- "How sweet, how passing sweet is solitude." B...
WILLIAM COWPER
Sweet, sweet, sweet poison for the age's tooth. -King John. Act i. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Solitude: sweet absence of faces.
MILAN KUNDERA
I’m thankful that everything sweet is sweet because it is finite.
ANTHONY DOERR
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Solitude: a sweet absence of looks.
MILAN KUNDERA
Celebrate we will for life is short but sweet for certain
DAVE MATTHEWS BAND
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MATTHEW PEARL
ALL WHO HAVE THEIR REWARD ON EARTH, THE FRUITS OF PAINFUL SUPERSTITION AND BLIND ZEAL, NOUGHT SEEKIN...
JOHN MILTON
He was, as every truly great poet has ever been, a good man; but finding it impossible to realize hi...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
There is a society in the deepest solitude.
ISAAC D'ISRAELI
This was a short retirement.
LEE KIRK
Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.
SARAH LOUISE DELANY
Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet sol...
WILLIAM JAY
Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.
ABU BAKR
God is man's best friend and solitude is his best companion.
APURVA GAGLANI
Sometimes solitude is a real heaven for the tired minds and a marvellous sanctuary for the wounded s...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN
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JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
I had three chairs in my house: one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
...[T]he three greatest works are those of JOSEPH DEVLIN After being is a situation of solitude for a long time, then penetrating a the frightening boundarie...
JUSTIN MURTEY
One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
GOETHE
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
THOMAS BROWNE SR.
Everyone in a decadent society, Lorrain urges, is guilty. Everyone loves masking murder and everyone...
JENNIFER BIRKETT
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
A poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever.
IRWIN SHAW
Sweet discourse makes short daies and nights.
GEORGE HERBERT
This is the classic long-term/short-term tradeoff. We're accepting lower short-term earnings in retu...
ROBERT ALLEN
Then a hundred sad voices lifted a wail,
And a hundred glad voices piped on the gale:
'Tim...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI
Life is too short to not have oysters and champagne sometimes.
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY
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BRADLEY B. DALINA
We haven't communicated that much since Christmas. It sounds crazy, but sometimes the less we talk, ...
MEGAN MIRES
The return makes one love the farewell
ALFRED DE MUSSET
Life is too sweet and too short to express our affection with just our thumbs. Touch is meant for mo...
KRISTIN ARMSTRONG
The best thinking is done in solitude not in turmoil.
APURVA GAGLANI
Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.
HONORé DE BALZAC
L'élégance est de se comporter dans la solitude comme en société.
SYLVAIN TESSON
Sometimes it seems that the easy way is the best path to follow, but don't be fooled by short-term g...
JEFFREY BENJAMIN
Solitude allows you to sit down and work out a system that works best for you.
SUNDAY ADELAJA
Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit.
JOHN STUART MILL
life is like a martini, sometimes sweet, sometimes dirty, always shaken, never stirred
REZA FARIVAR
Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.
ROBERT CECIL
Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth
MASON COOLEY
from conservatism – specifically, the John Birch Society.
RUSH LIMBAUGH
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
THOMAS BROWNE
The John Birch Society is not ultra-conservative, communist-hating, and racist as opponents paint it...
G. EDWARD GRIFFIN
Sometimes I'm an ass, sometimes I'm sweet as peaches.
MILO VENTIMIGLIA
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A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold,
And pavement stars—as starts to thee appear
...
JOHN MILTON
To be able to increase self-understanding, solitude is your best friend.
TURYASINGURA NELSON DERRICK
Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
It's a fine line between genius and insanity. John is the best player who ever walked on a tennis co...
PAT CASH
A bird sang sweet and strong
In the top of the highest tree,
He said, "I pour out my heart i...
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
JOSEPH JOUBERT
The best lessons of life are learnt in silence and solitude.
ABHIJIT NASKAR
Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the wor...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise an...
PHILIP GILBERT HAMERTON
The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does.
ANONYMOUS
Sometimes we find the sweetest solidarity in the midst of solitude.
CURTIS TYRONE JONES
Celebrate we will because life is short but sweet for certain we're climbing two by two to be sure t...
DAVE MATTHEWS
Celebrate we will because life is short but sweet for certain we're climbing two by two to be sur...
DAVE MATTHEWS
The best thinking has been done in solitude.
THOMAS ALVA EDISON
Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.
C. S. CALVERLEY
Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.
CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY
Everyone keeps asking, 'When's John going to retire? Is this a retirement party?' and I tell them wh...
BILL MCCOY
You are a delicate as a flower, One little thing can break you, so dont let anything come in the way...
DANIELLE D
Every girl’s journey is a book of unknowns Sometimes they destroys this society Sometimes they rec...
HARIKRISHNA PANIGRAHI
Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
Short words are the best and old words when short are best of all.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
I blame my dad for my sweet tooth. His motto was 'Life is short; eat dessert first.' How can I argue...
WENDY MASS
In all her intercourse with society, however, there was nothing that made her feel as if she belonge...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Revenge is Always Sweet, it's the Aftertaste that's Bitter.
JOSHUA CALEB
Keep the first date brief, short, sweet and simple and they'll come back to you.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE
Keep the first date brief, short, sweet and simple and they'll come back to you.
AULIQ ICE
Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it.
JOHN RUSKIN
isn't a short-term tack to drive sales. This is something that's important for us as a society to ad...
BEN COHEN
Solitude is the playfield of Satan. - Pale Fire, 1962.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
To fly from, need not be to hate, makind: All are not fit with them to stir and toil, Nor is it di...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
RAINER MARIA RILKE
Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently. ...
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER
Sometimes I need what only you can provide, your absence.
ASHLEIGH
One can acquire everything in solitude except character. - On Love, 1822.
STENDHAL
The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie. - The Silence of the Sea.
HILAIRE BELLOC
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.
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Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothe...
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What call thou solitude? Is not the earth with various living creatures, and the air replenished, an...
JOHN MILTON
For never can true reconcilement grow, Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep.
JOHN MILTON
Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.
JOHN MILTON
Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible.
JOHN MILTON
Just then return'd at shut of evening flowers.
JOHN MILTON
Now came still evening on; and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad: Silence ...
JOHN MILTON
The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light t...
JOHN MILTON
Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where mos...
JOHN MILTON
None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.
JOHN MILTON