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.
JOHN MILTON Solitude is often the best society
PROVERB [Milton Hope led the singing of] Happy Birthday ... He would say, 'Keep it sweet and short and don't...
BOB HOPE You don't know what you don't know
JEFF CARTER 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 Milton was the gold standard of religious poets for English and American scholars. But Milton wrote ...
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 Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. - Among My Bo...
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 Being alone sometimes, bring a short-lived relief, from stress and anger.Yet having friends, can do ...
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 Milton's learned vocabulary [...] and his distant perspectives, represent the authoritative unintell...
JOHN BROADBENT 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.
PATRICIA SAMPSON Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothe...
MIGUEL DE UNANIMO
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O'er the cowslip's velvet head,
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And that...
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Impearls on every leaf and every flower.
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...
JOHN MILTON Whence and what are thou, execrable shape?
JOHN MILTON Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire,
And airy tongues that syllable men's names.
JOHN MILTON But zeal moved thee;
To please thy gods thou didst it!
JOHN MILTON But his zeal
None seconded, as out of season judged,
Or singular and rash.
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Is flat despair.
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Harpies and Hydras.
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Can either sex assume, or both.
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air of delightful studies.
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. . . .
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And backward mutters of dissevering power.
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Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?
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The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deed.
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Of creatures ...
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