Quote by Thomas Carlyle
Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man. - Thomas Carl

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man. – Thomas Carlyle

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The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion. – Thomas Carlyle

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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear. – Dag Hammarskjold

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Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. Ones relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain. – Elizabeth Bowen

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No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness. – Georges Bernanos

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