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Letter "T" » The Lonely
«The best [an American] can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been.»
«The silence that is in the starry sky,The sleep that is among the lonely hills.»
«The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
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Arts and Industries, Arts and Sciences, attainment, beasts, cultivated, exposed, fury, inclemency, legislator, legislators, modeled, ordained, patriots, sciences, societies, The Elements, The Fury, The Lonely
«This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century -- solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others.»
Author: Elie Wiesel
(Writer)
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expressed, first century, humanize, humanized, humanizing, identity, members, persecuted, persecutes, solidarity, The Lonely, twenty-first
«Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
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Loneliness
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conventional, hugs, mask, naked, outcast, terror, The Lonely, wears
«The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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encounters, hand, loneliest, lonely, offers, on one hand, quickly, The Lonely, The Lonely One
«There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,There is a rapture on the lonely shore,There is society, where none intrudes,By the deep sea, and music in its roar:I love not man the less, but Nature more.»
Author: Lord Byron
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deep sea, interviewed, interviewing, interviews, intrudes, intrude into, intrude on, intruding, pathless, rapture, raptures, roar, The Deep, The Lonely, The Rapture
«The wind blows out of the gates of the day, The wind blows over the lonely of heart, And the lonely of heart is withered away»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
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Blown Away, blows, Gates, The Lonely, withered
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