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Quote by Joseph Addison
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is

To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude. – Joseph Addison

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Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. – Joseph Addison

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Sky & Clouds
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures. – Joseph Addison

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Solitude coaxes magical things from our souls. – Terri Guillemets

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The reason old souls enjoy spending time alone is because they never really are. – Author Unknown

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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone, and that’s where I renew my springs that never dry up. – Pearl Buck

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Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are. – Robert Cecil

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True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say? – Vaclav Havel

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