Quote#Friendship
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work
Quote byBerthold Auerbach · 1812–1882
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889), On the Heights (Bunnett, trans.).
English (original)
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
— Berthold Auerbach
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Only what thou art in thyself determines thy value, not what thou hast.
He who possesses a firm faith, although in solitude, is not alone.
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Perfect solitude is when, for a whole day, no human eye has beheld your face.
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