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

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.

The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.

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

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.

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

Now at least the moon is full, and I walk alone, which is best by night, if not by day always.

The dear privacy and retirement and solitude which winter makes possible!

I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.

I have found a dream of beauty at which one might look all one's life and sigh.

As there are silent depths in the ocean which the fiercest storm cannot reach, so there are silent, holy depths in the heart of man which the storms of sin and sorrow can never disturb.

Only spread a fern frond over a man's head and worldly cares are cast out, and freedom and beauty and peace come in.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.

Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.

Thousands of God's wild blessings will search you and soak you as if you were sponge, and the big days will go by uncounted.

Standing here in the deep, brooding silence all the wilderness seems motionless, as if the work of creation were done.

For all the toll the desert takes of a man it gives compensations, deep breaths, deep sleep, and the communion of the stars.

There is no silence more docile than the silence of love, and it is indeed the only one that we may claim for ourselves alone.

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.

If trees could speak, hundreds of them would say that I had had these soul-emotions under them.