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Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company
LORD BYRON Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company.
GEORGE GORDON BYRON There is a tear for all who die, A mourner o'er the humblest grave. - Lord Byron (George Gor...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE There is no instinct like that of the heart. -Lord Byron.
LORD BYRON There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea! Jehovah hath triumphed--his people are free. -...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anythi...
COLE PORTER Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now use only four-letter words Writing prose - Anythin...
COLE PORTER We did issue this approvable letter, but we can't discuss what's in the letter. Only the company can...
JULIE ZAWISZA A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
OSCAR WILDE I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child s...
BRENDA UELAND My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker,...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Darling,
You asked me to write you a letter, so I am writing you a letter. I do not know why I ...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like a child...
BRENDA UELAND A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
GIAN VINCENZO GRAVINA Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art, For there thy...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Company, you see - company is - is - it's a very different thing from solitude - an't it?
CHARLES DICKENS All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin. Anon -Lord Byron.
LORD BYRON The fool needs company, the wise solitude.
RUCKETT Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
FRANZ KAFKA Delicious days ahead for solitude and writing and, oh yes, the holiday meal with family. Live with m...
STELLA ATRIUM Sacred solitude; reading, wondering and writing.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Our power management is pretty darn good with this device,
LEE EPTING Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I'll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an old-fashioned novel
HARUKI MURAKAMI Do not let any record company disturb your creative flow. You are not writing for the record company...
GRANDMASTER FLASH A letter-writing campaign is under way as we speak.
CONRAD DONOVAN The governor is not part of the litigation, ... He had no official role in approval of the initiativ...
LANCE OLSON For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one...
LORD BYRON They never fail who die in a great cause.
LORD BYRON Autobiographies, for the most part, to me, are like writing a love letter to yourself.
PAUL STANLEY Where there is mystery, it is generally supposed there must be evil.
GEORGE GORDON BYRON You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees...
JOHN KEATS I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is...
HENRY WARD BEECHER I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.
FRANZ KAFKA Anything we fully do is an alone journey.
NATALIE GOLDBERG The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Though [Abraham Lincoln] never would travel to Europe, he went with Shakespeare’s kings to Merry E...
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
JOSEPH ADDISON To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude.
RICHARD STEELE To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude
JOSEPH ADDISON Outlining is not writing. Coming up with ideas is not writing. Researching is not writing. Creating ...
HARLAN COBEN Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irre...
TERRI APTER A company is only as good as the people it keeps.
MARY KAY ASH Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the M...
BIBLE When I was a child, I thought,
Casually, that solitude
Never needed to be sought.
Som...
PHILIP LARKIN He was welcome everywhere he went, and was well-aware of his inability to tolerate solitude. He felt...
STEFAN ZWEIG The ''good old times'' -- all times when old are good.
LORD BYRON The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
UNKNOWN How wonderful it is to be able to write someone a letter! To feel like conveying your thoughts to a ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Remember thee! remember thee!
Till Lethe quench life's burning stream
Remorse and sham...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON I am, as far as I can tell, about a month behind Lord Byron. In every town we stop at we discover in...
SUSANNA CLARKE Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Do as many gigs as the good Lord sends. That's the only true training.
SUZI QUATRO A boy has a natural genius for combining business with pleasure
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER where was I? in remarking that me is the envelopes and not nearly so much so, the often foolish lett...
EDWARD GOREY The young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with ...
WILLIAM FAULKNER Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone...
OCTAVIO PAZ My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.
WARSAN SHIRE The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don't sit down to write a ...
LUKAS FOSS Showing that if a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Coach [Byron] Walker is a really, really good coach, and that program is one of the top in Broward e...
MIKE GONZALEZ I'm not only my spirit buy my body, and who can decide how much I, my individual self, am conditione...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM If you are among the good fellows chances are that you will be among the blemishes for the wicked ar...
APURVA GAGLANI She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get...
RUDOLPH DELSON Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
FULTON J. SHEEN What matters is the one thing I do know for certain: God is with me.
CRAIG GROESCHEL My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steal...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very n...
JANE AUSTEN A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a c...
SAMUEL MCCHORD CROTHERS I got the registered letter the day after this happened. You know, they should have hand-delivered t...
LARRY WATRUBA I'd love to own Newstead, partly because it belonged to Lord Byron, but also to try to uncover w...
KAREN MAITLAND Developing the three different technologies was relatively easy. The hard part was combining them in...
AVNER GAL Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked device; lest they exalt themsel...
BIBLE Byron made a good call. He told me to run a slant and go. Fortunately I ran a good enough route for ...
JIMMY SMITH If the good Lord could stop the rain just for tomorrow, but only for tomorrow, it would be good. But...
BRIGALIA BAM He was a hermit with a family. I have a bit of that in me. My sister and brother, too. We're not lon...
CRIS WILLIAMSON Byron
JONNY LEE MILLER No matter what consumers listen to -- rap, hip hop, country, classical or pop -- one thing is for su...
RICHARD CHIN When one is writing a letter, he should think that the recipient will make it into a hanging scroll.
TSUNETOMO YAMAMOTO I love writing, and I love the solitude of the writing, in that you're just sitting there creati...
JOHN WELLS A love lust for war ends in death...
PHILIP T. M. I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.
MOTHER TERESA In the past, we've done things with Miramar Marine Corps base. For their birthday, we delivered a ca...
ASHLEY GISIGER Writing with you is the only thing that keeps me alive.
DAVID HACKWORTH A woman being never at a loss... the devil always sticks by them.
GEORGE GORDON BYRON I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, ...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU More than this, I believe that the only lastingly important form of writing is writing for children....
SONYA HARTNETT The only day you should never write and achieve your goals is when the day ends with the letter y.
ONYI ANYADO It would be easy to assume that the open letter is a symptom of the Internet age. Such is not the ca...
ROXANE GAY Anger is only one letter short of danger
POPULAR SAYING When I was 16, I wanted to look like Lord Byron. It's not really a haircut so much as a hair-not...
JEREMY CLARKSON Empathic people are not weak but have an understanding of one main and important emotion.Empathy is ...
GARY F EVANS... I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Beauty is a good letter of introduction.
PROVERB Beauty is a good letter of introduction
GERMAN PROVERB Yoga helps me with a composed and serene state of mind, which is good for writing.
DAMON GALGUT

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