Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows.
Henry David Thoreau The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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I could be well content
To entertain the lag-end of my life
With quiet hours.
William Shakespeare (King Henry IV) Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
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Every man must take time daily for quiet and meditation. In daily meditation lies the secret of power. No one can grow in either spiritual knowledge or power without it.
H. Emilie Cady Lessons in Truth
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A fool can nought be stille.
Geoffrey Chaucer Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
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I learned... that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic, striving, but it comes to us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.
Brenda Ueland Treasury of Women's Quotations
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...his delight is in the law of the LORD, ``and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers.
Psalm 1:2-3 Holy Bible
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For most of us, the seductive and unstated part of "if I had enough
Julia Cameron The Right to Write : An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life
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