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No one can be happy in eternal solitude.


Anne Brontë

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HERBERT SPENCER What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
SALMAN RUSHDIE He had not breathed a word of love, or dropped one hint of tenderness or affection, and yet I had be...
ANNE BRONTë One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
STENDHAL One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
STENDHAL (MARIE-HENRI BEYLE) One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
HENRI B. STENDHAL One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.
MARIE HENRI BEYLE One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.
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MITT ROMNEY The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for ho...
RAINER MARIA RILKE One can acquire everything in solitude except character. - On Love, 1822.
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PATRICIA HIGHSMITH If I can stay constantly busy, I'll be happy.
DANIEL CUDMORE No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.
FREDERICK WILLIAM ROBERTSON Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
ANNE FRANK Believe in your happy solitude, it's really just a question of your honesty.
AK ...And every day in heaven will be more beautiful than the one before it Davy," assured Anne.
L.M. MONTGOMERY Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be...
ARNOLD BENNETT No one knew how many of the Indians would come back. We are so happy to see they came out, even if i...
JOYCE JACKSON Life has taught me that to be Happy one must attain Peace. For without Peace, there can be no Happin...
RVM I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë No one that can commit the crime that occurred in this case can still be the smiling, happy go-lucky...
JOSEPH HARTZLER Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE A great man is one that can develop convictions in solitude and carry them out in a crowd.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD As I walk through the valley of death, I fear not the inevitable; I can smile and truly be happy, be...
SCOTTIE SOMERS No woman can be completely happy at any one moment in time. They're always anticipating the next...
DENIS LEARY Quiero que [mi hijo] conozca el secreto de la felicidad, algo tan sencillo que da la impresión de q...
JAMES RHODES No one knows Anne's better side, and that's why most people can't stand me. Oh, I can be...
ANNE FRANK Be so strong that no one can ignore you.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
HAROLD BLOOM The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao.
The name that can be named is not the eternal N...
LAO-TZU No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one c...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one c...
SENECA There are no eternal facts as there are no eternal truths
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.
E F BENSON When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.
EDWARD FREDERIC BENSON When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.
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ANGELO SCOLA Stop in somebody's shadow to rest and cool down, and you are lost. No one can make anyone else happy...
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JOSEPH BARBER LIGHTFOOT Jesus has given me eternal life in Him. Let them take my life here, but God holds me in the palm of ...
FRANCINE RIVERS Our trainer thinks it's just a bad bruise. If Anne can be back for our next game, she'll be back.
BILL RZEPKA You can choose to be happy or sad and whichever you choose that is what you get. No one is really re...
SIDNEY MADWED Anne is God. I am God. The happy grass are God, Jill groks in beauty always. Jill is God. All shapin...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN You see, Mersualt, all the misery and cruelty of our civilisation can be measured by this one stupid...
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MARTTI AHTISAARI The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which ...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING This is a women's league. It's important to have coaches like Anne trailblazing away. ... Women are ...
SUE BIRD ... all humans are frightened of their own solitude. Yet only in solitude can man learn to know hims...
HAN SUYIN They look up at me and see a rich lady in maternity clothes. They don't realize I am one of them.
JODI PICOULT Tea should be taken in solitude.
C.S. LEWIS Be yourself, be who you can be.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA So [the Americans] object, so what? It's Jerusalem! I withstood American pressure, but Sharon surren...
BINYAMIN NETANYAHU Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked up...
AUGUSTE RODIN Only when one is connected to one's inner core is one connected to others. And, for me, the core, th...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH The student ponders moving to another state... "No matter where I go I can be happy." The master rep...
B GRACE JONES Of course I'm not happy with the one goal and no assists,
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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH One Hundred Years of Solitude
GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.
IRA GERSHWIN One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.
JOHANN VON GOETHE One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.
FAY WELDON No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction
DEMETRIUS PHALERENS No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction
DEMETRIUS PHALERENS No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction
FAY WELDON Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love, these only can triumph, for these only endure.
BARBER LIGHTFOOT You should always aim to be your own mouse, Lieam. In fact...you already are. You are not so quick t...
DAVID PETERSEN Have I gone mad like Anne and no one has the heart to tell me? I wish someone would tell me, I feel ...
SUZANNE COLLINS If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Love is made by two people in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd but in an oblivious ...
LOUIS ARAGON Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an obliviou...
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GERMANY KENT Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.
SIGMUND FREUD Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief
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KAJOL There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.
KATHLEEN NORRIS Through solitude you can pursue your goals and visions in life
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ANNE BRONTë But he who dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.
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ANNE BRONTë It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.
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admired in othe...
ANNE BRONTë . . . because we cannot conceive that as we grow up our own minds will become so enlarged and elevat...
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ANNE BRONTë My prayers, my tears, my wishes, fears, and lamentations, were witnessed by myself and heaven alone....
ANNE BRONTë She left me, offended at my want of sympathy, and thinking, no doubt, that I envied her. I did not -...
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ANNE BRONTë One glance he gave, one little smile at parting—it was but for a moment; but therein I read, or th...
ANNE BRONTë And why should he interest himself at all in my moral and intellectual capacities: what is it to him...
ANNE BRONTë Therefore, have done with this nonsense: you have no ground for hope: dismiss, at once, these hurtfu...
ANNE BRONTë You say you cannot love God; but it strikes me that if you rightly consider who and what He is, you ...
ANNE BRONTë I began this book with the intention of concealing nothing, that those who liked might have the bene...
ANNE BRONTë But our wishes are like tinder: the flint and steel of circumstances are continually striking out sp...
ANNE BRONTë But, God knows best, I concluded.
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ANNE BRONTë I had been seasoned by adversity, and tutored by experience, and I longed to redeem my lost honour i...
ANNE BRONTë You cannot expect stone to be as pliable as clay.
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ANNE BRONTë The end of Religion is not to teach us how to die, but how to live....
ANNE BRONTë I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise.
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ANNE BRONTë What a fool you must be," said my head to my heart, or my sterner to my softer self.
ANNE BRONTë No, thank you, I don't mind the rain,' I said. I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise.
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ANNE BRONTë What business had I to think of one that never thought of me?
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ANNE BRONTë if I hate the sins, I love the sinner, and would do much for his salvation
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ANNE BRONTë I was not really angry: I felt for him all the time, and longed to be reconciled; but I determined h...
ANNE BRONTë Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to thin...
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ANNE BRONTë I would rather have your friendship than the love of any other woman in the world.
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EMILY BRONTë You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
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EMILY BRONTë It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.
EMILY BRONTë She burned too bright for this world.
EMILY BRONTë Terror made me cruel . . .
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EMILY BRONTë Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think w...
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EMILY BRONTë Monsieur, if a wife's nature loathes that of the man she is wedded to, marriage must be slavery. Aga...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refi...
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.
EMILY BRONTë Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes.
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë Because misery, and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have p...
EMILY BRONTë Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot...
EMILY BRONTë If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and ...
EMILY BRONTë I would always rather be happy than dignified.
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion.
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never be...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Reader, I married him.
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and ab...
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to a...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne."

"I ask why? I must have a reason. In all re...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand -- ...
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.
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EMILY BRONTë It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
EMILY BRONTë Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë You are no ruin sir--no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about you...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë As different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.
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EMILY BRONTë She sang, as requested. There was much about love in the ballad: faithful love that refused to aband...
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë It is a long way off, sir"
"From what Jane?"
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EMILY BRONTë I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven and if the wicked man in the...
EMILY BRONTë I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
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EMILY BRONTë If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I cou...
EMILY BRONTë No reflection was to be allowed now, not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not o...
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EMILY BRONTë An odour of camphor and burnt vinegar warned me when I came near the fever room: and i passed its do...
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë You — you strange — you almost unearthly thing! — I love as my own flesh. You — poor and obs...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am, as Miss Scatcherd said, slatternly; I seldom put, and certainly never keep, things in order; I...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë The word book acted as a transient stimulus
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living. You said I killed you--haunt me then. T...
EMILY BRONTë Cheerfulness, it would appear,
is a matter which depends fully as much on the state
of t...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë As to the mouth, it delights at times in laughter; it is disposed to impart all that the brain conce...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but ...
EMILY BRONTë He comes with western winds, with evening's
wandering airs,
With that clear dusk of heave...
EMILY BRONTë But, when the days of golden dreams had perished,
And even Despair was powerless to destroy, EMILY BRONTë How clear she shines ! How quietly
I lie beneath her guardian light;
While heaven and ear...
EMILY BRONTë What have those lonely mountains worth revealing?
More glory and more grief than I can tell:
EMILY BRONTë Hope Was but a timid friend;
She sat without the grated den,
Watching how my fate would te...
EMILY BRONTë Evening Solace

The human heart has hidden treasures,
In secret kept, in silence sea...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë The old church tower and garden wall
Are black with autumn rain
And dreary winds forebodin...
EMILY BRONTë Riches I hold in light esteem,
And love I laugh to scorn,
And lust of fame was but a dream...
EMILY BRONTë So you shun me? - you shut yourself up and grieve alone! I would rather you had come and upbraided m...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë He shall never know I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, but because he's more myself th...
EMILY BRONTë The thing that irks me most is this shattered prison, after all. I'm tired, tired of being enclosed ...
EMILY BRONTë I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy." Mr. Rochester
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard…And w...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Tell me, now, fairy as you are, - can't you give me a charm, or a philter, or something of that sort...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë My hopes were all dead --- struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-b...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither so...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I thank my Maker, that in the midst of judgment he has remembered mercy. I humbly entreat my Redeeme...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!
CHARLOTTE BRONTë And from the midst of cheerless gloom
I passed to bright unclouded day.
EMILY BRONTë Then my sole relief was to walk along the corridor of the third storey, backwards and forwards, safe...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm's length of the shore! I mu...
EMILY BRONTë My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter ...
EMILY BRONTë