Quotations About / On: ALONE

  • 41.
    The revery alone will do
    If bees are few.
    (Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), U.S. poet. To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee (l. 4-5). . . The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Thomas H. Johnson, ed. (1960) Little, Brown.)
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  • 42.
    Do you know what it's like to love and be alone?
    (Abraham Polonsky (b. 1910), U.S. screenwriter, and Robert Rossen. Peg Born (Lilli Palmer), Body and Soul, to prize-fighter Charley Davis (John Garfield) on one of his infrequent visits (1947).)
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  • 43.
    Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste, or which goddess is able to live with one god alone?
    (Propertius Sextus (c. 50-16 B.C.), Roman elegist. Oxford Classical Text, ll.32. 55-56.)
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  • 44.
    If children had been told that they could not blow their noses, this alone would make adults blush.
    (Karl Kraus (1874-1936), Austrian writer. Trans. by Harry Zohn, originally published in Beim Wort genommen (1955). Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths, University of Chicago Press (1990).)
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  • 45.
    The philosophers' man alone still walks in dew,
    Still by the sea-side mutters milky lines
    Concerning an immaculate imagery.
    (Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), U.S. poet. "Asides on the Oboe.")
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  • 46.
    The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.
    (Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859), British historian, Whig politician. The Works of Lord Macaulay, vol. 11 (1898). Essay on Athenian Orators, Knight's Quarterly Magazine (Aug. 1824).)
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  • 47.
    And we, with all our wounds and all our powers,
    Must each await alone at his own height
    Another darkness or another light;
    (Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935), U.S. poet. The Man against the Sky (l. 190-192). . . Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.)
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  • 48.
    Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Tenth Selection, New York (1992).)
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  • 49.
    This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.
    (David Hume (1711-1776), Scottish philosopher, historian, embassy secretary. A Treatise of Human Nature, pp. 491-492, ed. Selby-Bigge (1740).)
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  • 50.
    Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
    (Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694-1778), French philosopher, author. "On Tragedy," letter 18, Letters on England (1732).)
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