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When my father and my mother forsake me, then Yahweh will take me up.

I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.

For in the day of trouble, he will keep me secretly in his pavilion. In the secret place of his tabernacle, he will hide me. He will lift me up on a rock.

From the end of the earth, I will call to you when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

For you have been a refuge for me, a strong tower from the enemy.

I will dwell in your tent forever. I will take refuge in the shelter of your wings. Selah.

Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.

Our forces begin to fail us; let us call them in and concentrate them in and for ourselves.

In the ages of equality all men are independent of each other, isolated and weak.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

Great minds are like eagles, and build their nest in some lofty solitude.

Peace of mind is impossible without a considerable amount of solitude.

The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind.

She called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, “You are a God who sees,” for she said, “Have I even stayed alive after seeing him?”

How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.

The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.

My heart is as dry as that spring sometimes proves in a thirsty August, when I revert to the space that is between us; a length of passage enough to render obsolete the phrases of our English letters before they can reach you.

How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! he is his own exclusive object.

To be together is for us to be at once as free as in solitude, as gay as in company.

Presently, after this was at an end, my mother died, and I was left at liberty to mourn her loss awhile.

but to have the spleen, and to dream upon't, is a punishment I would not wish my greatest enemy

you would wonder at seeing how possible it is to live as secludedly in the midst of a multitude as in the centre of solitude

For solitude is a virtue with us, as a sublime bent and bias to purity, which divines that in the contact of man and man--in society--it must be unavoidably impure.

One must not avoid one's tests, although they constitute perhaps the most dangerous game one can play, and are in the end tests made only before ourselves and before no other judge.