One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.
Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
Solitude is independence.
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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