Solitude Quotes — page 25

This life is short, the vanities of the world are transient, but they alone live who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.

'Tis Providence alone secures In every change both mine and yours.

Perfect solitude is when, for a whole day, no human eye has beheld your face.

Words alone are certain good.

Hast thou chosen, O my people, on whose party thou shalt stand, Ere the Doom from its worn sandals shakes the dust against our land? Though the cause of Evil prosper, yet ’tis Truth alone is strong, And, albeit she wander outcast now, I …

But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.