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Ambition is of all others the most contrary humour to solitude; glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.
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The soul environs itself with friends that it may enter into a grander self-acquaintance or solitude; and it goes alone for a season, that it may exalt its conversation or society.
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Very, very early in my boyhood I had acquired the habit of going about alone to amuse myself in my own way.
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The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do, just as one pleases.
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It asks a troublesome effort to ensure the admiration of others: it is a still greater one to be satisfied with one's own thoughts.
William Hazlittverified·On Living to One's-Self, in Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners·January 1821
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Instead of an awkward silence, broken by attempts at wit or dull common-places, mine is that undisturbed silence of the heart which alone is perfect eloquence.