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Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone. – Horatio Nelson

To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it. – Joyce Maynard

The English Bible – a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power. – Thomas B. Macaulay

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion. – Thomas B. Macaulay

Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific. – Eric Gill

Lord, Bless our enemies have mercy upon them, may they turn their course and let us alone, and let us live in peace at our homes in our own native land. – William Pennington

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married. – Lewis Grizzard

For the first time, I lived alone… in a luxury apartment on Sunset Strip. For a few days I loved the idea, but I got lonely and restless. – Patty Duke

People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work. – Tahar Ben Jelloun

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone. – Boris Pasternak

Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal. – Isocrates

What good is sitting all alone in your room? – Liza Minnelli

A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone. – Lorna Luft

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds. – Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

The biggest opportunity in 2013 is in Africa. It has seven out of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world. In Nigeria alone there are 100 million people with mobile phones. In total, 300 million Africans – five times the population of Britain – are in the middle class. – David Miliband

This is nourishing, redemptive we become less alone inside. – David Foster Wallace

So many people suffer from abuse, and suffer alone. – Pamela Stephenson

Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it. – William Blackstone

Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone. – A. R. Ammons

I was born to be alone, and I always shall be but now I want to be. – Mary MacLane