949 private quotes tagged alone

“What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.” — Lord Byron

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“We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.” — Tennessee Williams

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“Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.” — Marshall McLuhan

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“Blood alone moves the wheels of history.” — Martin Luther

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“I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Testing oneself is best when done alone.” — Jimmy Carter

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“What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.” — Helen Keller

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“The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records.” — Richard Branson

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“Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.” — Sophocles

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“The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.” — William Butler Yeats

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“Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.” — Alexander Pope

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“Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.” — R. Buckminster Fuller

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“It is better to be alone than in bad company.” — George Washington

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“The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.” — André Gide

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“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” — Helen Keller

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“A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.” — James Madison

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“Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control these three alone lead one to sovereign power.” — Alfred Tennyson

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“Change alone is unchanging.” — Heraclitus

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“It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.” — Blaise Pascal

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“Health consists with temperance alone.” — Alexander Pope

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“Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.” — Charles Bukowski

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“Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.” — Ludwig van Beethoven

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“It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.” — George Washington

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“Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.” — Ayn Rand

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