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Solitude sometimes is best society.


John Milton

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JOHN MILTON Solitude is often the best society
PROVERB 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 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 Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.
ABU BAKR Solitude is creativity's best friend, and solitude is refreshment for our souls.
NAOMI JUDD ...[T]he three greatest works are those of JOSEPH DEVLIN 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. God is man's best friend and solitude is his best companion.
APURVA GAGLANI Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL 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 Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. - Among My Bo...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.
ROBERT CECIL from conservatism – specifically, the John Birch Society.
RUSH LIMBAUGH 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 Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the wor...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Sometimes we find the sweetest solidarity in the midst of solitude.
CURTIS TYRONE JONES The best thinking has been done in solitude.
THOMAS ALVA EDISON Every girl’s journey is a book of unknowns Sometimes they destroys this society Sometimes they rec...
HARIKRISHNA PANIGRAHI In all her intercourse with society, however, there was nothing that made her feel as if she belonge...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE I had three chairs in my house: one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society
HENRY DAVID THOREAU 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 solitude is a real heaven for the tired minds and a marvellous sanctuary for the wounded s...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN No, never mind, I didn't think so. Mead, Dante's theme is man-not a man.' Lowell said finally with a...
MATTHEW PEARL Thou at the sight
Pleased, out of Heaven shalt look down and smile,
While by thee raised I...
JOHN MILTON Blake said Milton was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it. I am of the Devil's p...
PHILIP PULLMAN It's a fine line between genius and insanity. John is the best player who ever walked on a tennis co...
PAT CASH The best lessons of life are learnt in silence and solitude.
ABHIJIT NASKAR Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
DON MARQUIS His act was rather that of a harmless lunatic than an enemy. We were not so new to the country as no...
AMBROSE BIERCE Solitude is a time when you go into a determined period of making the best of your time.
SUNDAY ADELAJA But now at last the sacred influence
Of light appears, and rom the walls of Heav'n
Shoots ...
JOHN MILTON They changed their minds, Flew off, and into strange vagaries fell.
JOHN MILTON In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
GEORGE HERBERT It sometimes takes a state of solitude to bring to mind the real power of companionship.
STEPHEN RICHARDS We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise an...
PHILIP GILBERT HAMERTON I need quiet and solitude to work. Darkness is best. If I am wide awake, I can't write.
JEFF LINDSAY Sometimes nudity is gratuitous. We just live in a society where everything goes.
JUDI DENCH they simply never understand,
do they,
that sometimes solitude
is
one of the mos...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
THOMAS ALVA EDISON The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
THOMAS A. EDISON Sometimes the best solution is simplification.
BOBBY BRAGAN But first whom shall we send
In search of this new world, whom shall we find
Sufficient? W...
JOHN MILTON It's like standing on top of the John Hancock. This is the best we've been.
JERRY ANGELO It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY To resist the social pressure now put even on one's leisure time, requires a tougher upbringing and ...
ROBERT GRAVES I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
ZANE GREY Solitude allows you to sit down and work out a system that works best for you.
SUNDAY ADELAJA Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes you must do what is required.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL In a society where people are obsessed with personal space, dogs have come to serve as welcome, neo-...
OKEY NDIBE We just need everybody to step it up now that Milton is out.
JERRY NARRON Things haven't panned out for him at Milton Keynes Dons and he now has the chance to put himself on ...
COLIN TODD Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
GEORGE HERBERT Sometimes the best gaine is to lose.
GEORGE HERBERT Sometimes the best gain is to lose
GEORGE HERBERT Sometimes the best option is having none.
GHAITH ITBEGA Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.
JOHNNY ROTTEN Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
HONORE DE BALZAC Some mute, inglorious Milton here may rest.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Sometimes we have all the answers before us, but ask wrong questions- John Tristram
JOHN ALEXANDER TRISTRAM Girls' education is the single best investment that any society can make,
CAROL BELLAMY Yielding is sometimes the best way of succeeding
ITALIAN PROVERB Sometimes, Defense is the best form of Offense...
ANKALA V SUBBARAO Sometimes advance is the best form of retreat.
MARK LAWRENCE Solitude is independence.
HERMANN HESSE There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON 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 I think sometimes the best training is to rest.
CRISTIANO RONALDO Milton calls the university A stony-hearted step-mother.
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL [Milton] calls the university "A stony-hearted step-mother."
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL Solitude is un-American.
ERICA JONG He is his own best friend, and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is h...
ARISTOTLE My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband...
KARL PHILIPP MORITZ How do you love your children?
By doing what's best for them.
Then how would you love your...
J. GRANT HOWARD The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shake...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Solitude is not the same as loneliness. Solitude is a solitary boat floating in a sea of possible co...
ROBERT FULGHUM Slowing down is sometimes the best way to speed up.
MIKE VANCE Sometimes it is best to take time to be quiet!
PATRICK DRIESSEN Sometimes being lost is the best way to find yourself.
L.J. VANIER The wise man sometimes flees from society from fear of being bored.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.
ANNA NEAGLE Only when one is connected to one's inner core is one connected to others. And, for me, the core, th...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH Solitude is our greatest teacher
MIMI NOVIC Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Sometimes the best solution is to stop trying to change people.
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