Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Men Quotes, Solitude Quotes

Culture is the suggestion, from certain best thoughts, that a man has a range of affinities through which he can modulate the violence of any master-tones that have a droning preponderance in his scale, and succor him against himself. Culture redresses this imbalance, puts him among equals and superiors, revives the delicious sense of sympathy, and warns him of the dangers of solitude and repulsion.

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Loneliness is one thing, solitude another.

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Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence.

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. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.

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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.

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Mark! Where his carnage and his conquests cease, He makes a solitude and calls it-peace!

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I do not want to be admired. I want to give, to be given, and solitude in which to unfold my possessions.

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My doom and my strength is to be solitary.

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Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small.

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A multitude of people and yet solitude.

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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.

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Transgression is a quest for solitude

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I love tranquil solitude.

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Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and beats us down by destroying our solitude, where otherwise we might drink and renew our strength before going out to face the world again.

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I would paint a portrait which would bring the tears, had I canvas for it, and the scene should be -- solitude, and the figures -- solitude -- and the lights and shades, each a solitude.

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The saint and poet seek privacy to ends the most public and universal: and it is the secret of culture, to interest the man more in his public, than in his private quality.

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He clings to his solitude, to his affected indifference and his grown-up ways, but it's just an act, so as never, never to show his real feelings.

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Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.

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solitude is not absence of love, but its complement

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Isolation must precede true society.

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