A presentation of some selected profound quotes by great men in History on the importance of Solitude. (For the Video on YouTube please check out the URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzEuL3zSwVs )

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Solitude, though it may be
silent as light, is like light, the
mightiest of agencies; for
solitude is essential to man. All
men come into this world alone
and leave it alone.
Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859)
British author and intellectual.

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The best thinking
has been done in solitude.
Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)
American inventor

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Solitude is painful when one is young,
but delightful when one is more mature.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
German-Swiss-U.S. scientist

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Conversation enriches the
understanding; but solitude is
the school of genius.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
U.S. poet, essayist and lecturer.

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The more powerful and original a mind,
the more it will incline towards
the religion of solitude.
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) British author.

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This great misfortune –
to be incapable of solitude.
Jean de la Bruyère (1645-1696)
French satiric moralist.

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Solitude is as needed to the imagination
as society is wholesome to the character.
James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
American poet, critic and editor.

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In solitude the mind gains strength
and learns to lean upon itself.
Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) British writer.

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I have never found a companion so
companionable as solitude.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American naturalist,
poet and philosopher.

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History shows that the majority
of people that have done anything
great have passed their youth in seclusion.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) British historian and essayist.

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I love people. I love my family, my children . . . but
inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's
where you renew your springs that never dry up.
Pearl S. Buck, American Nobel Prize Winner in Literature

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Should a seeker not find a companion
who is better or equal, let him
resolutely pursue a solitary course;
there is no fellowship with the fool.
The Buddha in The Dhammapada

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The End
In Solitude
and in the
Silence
of your mind,
May you all
gain some
Insights into
Truth Sublime.
With Metta,
Bro. Oh Teik Bin