Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
- Topic: Solitude
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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even dearth is one of the things that Nature wills.
To change your mind and to follow him who sets you straight is to be nonetheless the free agent that you were before.
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Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware.
Thus not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but it hides his descendants and separates his contemporaries from him; it throws him back forever upon himself alone and threatens in the end to confine him entirely within solitude of his own heart.
Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.
The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.
Any one thing in creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.
A place for everything and everything in its place.
The clearest way in the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
One can acquire everything in solitude—except character.