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Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.

I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and the flowers faded.

Alone!--That worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known, Of hope laid waste, knells in that word--Alone!

But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless.

This is to be along; this, this is solitude!

Among them, but not of them.

In solitude, when we are least alone.

'Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give No hollow aid; alone--man with his God must strive.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

That he was never less at leisure than when at leisure: nor that he was ever less alone than when alone.

Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide, wide sea.

So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.

I praise the Frenchman; his remark was shrewd,-- "How sweet, how passing sweet is solitude." But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper--Solitude is sweet.

Oh, for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more!

O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.

Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, and enthusiasm is the true parent of genius. In all ages solitude has been called for--has been flown to.

There is a society in the deepest solitude.

So vain is the belief That the sequestered path has fewest flowers.

Thrice happy he, who by some shady grove, Far from the clamorous world; doth live his own; Though solitary, who is not alone, But doth converse with that eternal love.

We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.