In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.
Laurence Sterne
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- I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.
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- So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.
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