No vice goes alone. [ Proverb ]

Truth alone wounds. [ Napoleon ]

Deeds alone suffice. [ Whittier ]

Work is alone noble. [ Carlyle ]

Haste comes not alone. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Thought alone is eternal. [ Owen Meredith ]

Only the bad man is alone. [ Diderot ]

Courage alone can save us. [ Southey ]

Nature alone is permanent. [ Longfellow ]

Live not for yourself alone. [ Proverb ]

Concentration alone conquers. [ Charles Buxton ]

Frugality is an estate alone. [ Proverb ]

Nothing is fair or good alone. [ Emerson ]

All we ask is to be let alone. [ Jefferson Davis ]

Occupation alone is happiness. [ Dr. Johnson ]

True happiness (if understood)
Consists alone in doing good. [ Thomson ]

Virtue alone is true nobility. [ Gifford ]

Our father's dust is left alone
And silent under other snows. [ Tennyson ]

Riches alone make no men happy. [ Proverb ]

Ill fortune seldom comes alone. [ Dryden ]

The natural alone is permanent. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

When, musing on companions gone,
We doubly feel ourselves alone. [ Sir Walter Scott ]

Adversity, sage useful guest,
Severe instructor, but the best.
It is from thee alone we know
Justly to value things below. [ Somerville ]

I do not love thee, Doctor Fell,
The reason why, I cannot tell;
But this alone I know full well
I do not love thee, Doctor Fell. [ Tom Brown ]

Virtue alone is happiness below. [ Crabbe ]

Until I truly loved, I was alone. [ Mrs. Norton ]

He lives who lives to God alone,
And all are dead beside;
For other source than God is none
Whence life can be supplied. [ William Cowper ]

To myself alone do I owe my fame. [ Corneille ]

Gold hath no lustre of its own.
It shines by temperate use alone. [ Francis ]

A God alone can comprehend a God. [ Dr. Young ]

You will be sad if you are alone. [ Ovid ]

The mind alone can not be exiled. [ Ovid ]

Neglect alone will destroy wealth. [ Pontanus ]

It is a good ill that comes alone. [ Proverb ]

All my past life is mine no more,
The flying hours are gone
Like transitory dreams given over,
Whose images are kept in store,
By memory alone. [ Rochester ]

Nature alone knows what she means. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

So full of shapes is fancy.
That it alone is high fantastical. [ William Shakespeare ]

Virtuous men alone possess friends. [ Voltaire ]

Yet, no - not words, for they
But half can tell love's feeling;
Sweet flowers alone can say
What passion fears revealing:
A once bright rose's wither'd leaf,
A tow'ring lily broken -
Oh, these may paint a grief
No words could ever have spoken. [ Moore ]

In days of yore, the poet's pen
From wing of bird was plundered.
Perhaps of goose, but now and then,
From Jove's own eagle sundered.
But now, metallic pens disclose
Alone the poet's numbers;
In iron inspiration glows,
Or with the poet slumbers. [ John Quincy Adams ]

Welcome evil, if thou comest alone. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

To the valiant actions speak alone. [ Smollett ]

God gives us love. Something to love
He lends us; but when love is grown
To ripeness, that on which it throve
Falls off, and love is left alone. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

Strong Son of God, immortal Love,
Whom we that have not seen Thy face,
By faith, and faith alone, embrace,
Believing where we cannot prove. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

Welcome mischief, if you come alone. [ Proverb ]

On argument alone my faith is built. [ Young ]

The burning soul, the burdened mind.
In books alone companions find. [ Mrs. Hale ]

It comes -- the beautiful, the free,
The crown of all humanity -
In silence and alone
To seek the elected one. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Endymion ]

Follow a shadow, it still flies you.
Seem to fly it, it will pursue:
So court a mistress, she denies you;
Let her alone, she will court you.
Say are not women truly then,
Styled but the shadows of us men? [ Ben Jonson ]

Man alone is either a god or a devil.

Wit and humor belong to genius alone. [ Cervantes ]

Grief alone can teach us what is man. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

A temperate style is alone classical. [ Joubert ]

Surely use alone
Makes money not a contemptible stone. [ George Herbert ]

Oh! call my brother back to me!
I cannot play alone;
The summer comes with flower and bee -
Where is my brother gone? [ Mrs. Hemans ]

In solitude, where we are least alone. [ Byron ]

Earnestness alone makes life eternity. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Health consists with temperance alone. [ Pope ]

Then never less alone than when alone. [ Samuel Rogers ]

The unconscious is the alone complete. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The night comes on that knows not morn,
When I shall cease to be all alone,
To live forgotten, and love forlorn. [ Tennyson ]

The mighty Rain
Holds the vast empire of the sky alone. [ William Cullen Bryant ]

He alone is blessed who never was born. [ Prior ]

Better to be alone than in bad company. [ Proverb ]

Evil comes not amiss if it comes alone. [ Cervantes ]

True love's the gift which God has given
To man alone beneath the heaven;
It is not fantasy's hot fire,
Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly;
It liveth not in fierce desire,
With dead desire it doth not die;
It is the secret sympathy.
The silver link, the silken tie.
Which heart to heart, and mind to mind,
In body and in soul can bind. [ Walter Scott ]

'Tis heaven alone that is given away,
'Tis only God may be had for the asking. [ Lowell ]

Kings alone are no more than single men. [ Proverb ]

Few are the faults we flatter when alone. [ Young ]

It is liberty alone that gives the flower
Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume;
And we are weeds without it. [ Cowper ]

Different minds
Incline to different objects; one pursues
The vast alone, the wonderful, the wild;
Another sighs for harmony and grace,
And gentlest beauty. [ Akenside ]

Welcome, misfortune, if thou comest alone. [ Spanish Proverb ]

Clemency alone mates us equal to the gods. [ Claudianus ]

Authors alone, with more than savage rage,
Unnatural war with brother authors wage. [ Churchill ]

The path of sorrow, and that path alone.
Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown. [ Cowper ]

'Tis liberty alone that gives the flowers
Of fleeting life their luster and perfume.
And we are weeds without it. [ Cowper ]

Pleasure limps for him who enjoys it alone. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

Obedience alone gives the right to command. [ Emerson ]

Music resembles poetry; in each
Are nameless graces which no methods teach,
And which a master-hand alone can reach. [ Pope ]

Blessed is the misfortune that comes alone. [ Italian Proverb ]

I was never less alone than when by myself. [ Edward Gibbon ]

Reason and virtue alone can bestow liberty. [ Shaftesbury ]

I always get the better when I argue alone. [ Goldsmith ]

We enter the world alone, we leave it alone. [ Froude ]

To be left alone
And face to face with my own crime, had been
Just retribution. [ Longfellow ]

It is not good that the man should be alone. [ Bible ]

He alone can claim this name, who writes
With fancy high, and bold and daring flights. [ Horace ]

The honey-bee that wanders all day long
The field, the woodland, and the garden over.
To gather in his fragrant winter store.
Humming in calm content his winter song,
Seeks not alone the rose's glowing breast,
The lily's dainty cup, the violet's lips.
But from all rank and noxious weeds he sips
The single drop of sweetness closely pressed
Within the poison chalice. [ Anne C. Lynch Botta ]

By his life alone.
Gracious and sweet, the better way was shown. [ Whittier ]

Nature has no moods; they belong to man alone. [ Auerbach ]

Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call today his own;
He who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. [ Dryden, after Horace ]

Around her shone
The nameless charms unmark'd by her alone.
The light of love, the purity of grace,
The mind, the music breathing from her face.
The heart whose softness harmonized the whole,
And, oh! that eye was in itself a soul. [ Byron ]

If she do frown, it is not in hate of you,
But rather to beget more love in you:
If she do chide, it is not to have you gone;
For why, the fools are mad if left alone.
Take no repulse, whatever she doth say;
For - get you gone - she doth not mean - away. [ William Shakespeare ]

And eyes disclosed what eyes alone could tell. [ Dwight ]

The higher the studies the fewer the students.
The foremost horseman rides alone. [ E. W ]

Eternal Spirit of the chainless mind!
Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art.
For there thy habitation is the Heart -
The Heart which love of thee alone can bind;
And when thy sons to fetters are consigned -
To fetters and the damp vault's dayless gloom,
Their country conquers with their Martyrdom,
And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind. [ Byron ]

To dwell alone is the fate of all great souls. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]

Know then this truth (enough for man to know),
Virtue alone is happiness below. [ Alexander Pope ]

A wise man is never less alone than when alone. [ Proverb ]

It is hope alone that makes us willing to live. [ Proverb ]

Justice satisfies everybody, and justice alone. [ Emerson ]

Each man makes his own stature, builds himself:
Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids;
Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall. [ Edward Young ]

The male alone has been appointed to bear rule. [ Molière ]

Fathers alone a father's heart can know,
What secret tides of still enjoyment flow,
When brothers love, but if their hate succeeds,
They wage the war, but 'tis the father bleeds. [ Young ]

Man is an organ of life, and God alone is life. [ Swedenborg ]

That I might live alone once with my gold!
Oh 't is a sweet companion I kind and true!
A man may trust it, when his father cheats him,
Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf.
That which makes all men false, is true itself. [ Jonson ]

Progress, man's distinctive mark alone,
Not God's and not the beasts': God is, they are;
Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be. [ Browning ]

Blest be the gracious Power, who taught mankind
To stamp a lasting image of the mind!
Beasts may convey, and tuneful birds may sing.
Their mutual feelings, in the opening spring;
But Man alone has skill and power to send
The heart's warm dictates to the distant friend;
'Tis his alone to please, instruct, advise
Ages remote, and nations yet to rise. [ Crabbe ]

Unhappy he! who from the first of joys.
Society, cut off, is left alone
Amid this world of death. Day after day.
Sad on the jutting eminence he sits,
And views the main that ever toils below;
Still fondly forming in the farthest verge,
Where the round ether mixes with the wave.
Ships, dim-discovered, dropping from the clouds;
At evening, to the setting sun he turns
A mournful eye, and down his dying heart
Sinks helpless. [ Thomson ]

Do you never think what wondrous beings these?
Do you never think who made them, and who taught
The dialect they speak, where melodies
Alone are the interpreters of thought?
Whose household words are songs in many keys,
Sweeter than instrument of man ever caught! [ Longfellow ]

Resolve, resolve, and to be men aspire.
Exert that noblest privilege, alone
Here to mankind indulged; control desire:
Let godlike Reason, from her sovereign throne,
Speak the commanding word I will! and it is done. [ Thomson ]

Live on, brave lives, chained to the narrow round
Of Duty; live, expend yourselves, and make
The orb of Being wheel onward steadfastly
Upon its path--the Lord of Life alone
Knows to what goal of Good; work on, live on. [ Lewis Morris ]

Who eats his dinner alone, must saddle his horse. [ Proverb ]

Fond man! though all the heroes of your line
Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine
In proud display; yet take this truth from
Virtue alone is true nobility! [ Gifford ]

Better mad with all the world than wise all alone. [ French Proverb ]

All mischief comes from our inability to be alone. [ La Bruyère ]

He alone has energy that cannot be deprived of it. [ Lavater ]

'Tis the last rose of summer, left blooming alone. [ Moore ]

The fountain of my heart dried up within me, -
With nought that loved me, and with nought to love,
I stood upon the desert earth alone.
And in that deep and utter agony,
Though then, then even most unfit to die
I fell upon my knees and prayed for death. [ Maturin ]

Who dares to say that he alone has found the truth? [ Longfellow ]

It is better to be lost than to be saved all alone. [ Amiel ]

If woman lost us Eden, such as she alone restore it! [ Whittier ]

My days are in the yellow leaf;
The flowers and fruits of love are gone;
The worm, the canker, and the grief, Are mine alone. [ Byron ]

As to the value of conversions, God alone can judge. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Who eats his cock alone must saddle his horse alone. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

God alone is true; God alone is great; alone is God. [ Laboulaye ]

Children are the keys of Paradise;
They alone are good and wise,
Because their thoughts, their very lives, are prayer. [ R. H. Stoddard ]

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. [ Joseph Joubert ]

Immortality alone could teach this mortal how to die. [ D. M. Mulock ]

Who breathes must suffer; and who thinks, must mourn;
And he alone is bless'd, who never was born. [ Prior ]

It is reason and virtue alone that can bestow liberty. [ Shaftesbury ]

No one is so much alone in the universe as an athiest. [ Richter ]

A solitary blessing few can find,
Our joys with those we love are intertwined,
And he whose wakeful tenderness removes
The obstructing thorn that wounds the breast he loves,
Smooths not another's rugged path alone,
But scatters roses to adorn his own.

The Image of Eternity - the throne
Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime
The monsters of the deep are made; each zone
Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone. [ Byron ]

It is the diligent hand and head alone that maketh rich. [ Smiles ]

All our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone. [ La Bruyère ]

Virtue is of worth, by itself alone; and so is not birth. [ Proverb ]

The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion. [ Macaulay ]

He is never alone who is accompanied with noble thoughts. [ Proverb ]

I never whisper'd a private affair
Within the hearing of cat or mouse,
No, not to myself in the closet alone,
But I heard it shouted at once from the top of the house;
Everything came to be known. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

Not kings alone - the people, too, have their flatterers. [ Mirabeau ]

Sweet flowers alone can say what passion fears revealing. [ Moore ]

In society mediocrity is not alone dangerous, it is fatal. [ Mme. de Maintenon ]

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion. [ Lowell ]

Wisdom alone is a science of other sciences and of itself. [ Plato ]

Being alone when one's belief is firm, is not to be alone. [ Auerbach ]

The privilege of the country is to be alone, when we like. [ Marmontel ]

Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying what contentment find? [ Milton ]

The mind alone is in fault which can never fly from itself. [ Horace ]

He that laughs when he is alone will make sport in company. [ Proverb ]

One is alone in a crowd when one suffers, or when one loves. [ Rochepedre ]

Nothing is beautiful but the true; the true alone is lovely. [ Boileau ]

He will never get to heaven that desires to go thither alone. [ Proverb ]

Variety alone gives joy; the sweetest meats the soonest cloy. [ Prior ]

They are never alone who are accompanied with noble thoughts. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Woe unto him that is never alone, and cannot bear to be alone. [ Hamerton ]

Let the drunkard alone, and by and bye he will fall of himself. [ Proverb ]

Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius. [ Mme. de Stael ]

All the passions die with the years; self-love alone never dies. [ Voltaire ]

The toil of life alone teaches us to value the blessings of life. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

He that lives alone lives in danger; society avoids many dangers. [ Marcus Antoninus ]

Seraphs share with thee knowledge; but art, O man, is thine alone! [ Schiller ]

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed. [ Sir W. Temple ]

The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong. [ George William Curtis ]

Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid.
Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate. [ Horace Greeley ]

Action can be understood and again represented by the spirit alone. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Death alone discloses how insignificant are the puny bodies of men. [ Juvenal ]

Through the wide world, he only is alone who lives not for another. [ Samuel Rogers ]

Animals feed, man eats; the man of intellect alone knows how to eat. [ Brillat-Savarin ]

Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you. [ Ben Jonson ]

Great hearts alone understand how much glory there is in being good. [ Michelet ]

Time sooner or later vanquishes love; friendship alone subdues time. [ Mme. d'Arconville ]

Names alone mock destruction; they survive the doom of all creation. [ H. Trevanion ]

Conscience is a sacred sanctuary where God alone may enter as judge. [ Lamennais ]

The virtuous action, done for virtue's sake alone, is truly laudable. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

To live is not to live for one's self alone; let us help one another. [ Menander ]

The labour of life alone teaches us to value the good things of life. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

You must be mad with the insane unless you wish to be left quite alone. [ Petronius ]

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and deeds alone suffice. [ Whittier ]

Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be. [ Quintilian ]

Eagles we see fly alone; and they are but sheep which always herd together. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble. [ Kossuth ]

It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor. [ Cicero ]

It is wit to pick a lock and steal a horse, but it is wisdom to let it alone. [ Proverb ]

In love, if inconstancy gives some pleasure, constancy alone gives happiness. [ Trublet ]

Not alone to know, but to act according to thy knowledge, is thy destination. [ Fichte ]

Diligence alone is a good patrimony, but negligence will waste a fair estate. [ Proverb ]

He alone is an acute observer who can observe minutely without being observed. [ Lavater ]

Friendship needs to be rooted in respect, but love can live upon itself alone. [ Ouida ]

Hostile is the world, and falsely disposed. In it each one loves himself alone. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Weeping is not alone woman's weapon, but also a specific for transient sorrows. [ Mme. Dufresnoy ]

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality. [ Yoko Ono ]

Of all things that man possesses, women alone take pleasure in being possessed. [ Malherbe ]

Never educate a child to be a gentleman or lady alone, but to be a man, a woman. [ Herbert Spencer ]

All men are equal; it is not birth, but virtue alone, that makes the difference. [ Voltaire ]

Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit. [ Selden ]

Expression alone can invest beauty with supreme and lasting command over the eye. [ Fuseli ]

Conscience is a sacred sanctuary, where God alone has the right to enter as judge. [ Lamennais ]

The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone. [ Wordsworth ]

Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold. [ Coleridge ]

Many a smiling face hides a mourning heart; but grief alone teaches us what we are. [ Schiller ]

The real Nimrod of this era, who alone does any good to the era, is the rat-catcher. [ Carlyle ]

He who determines to love only those who are faultless will soon find himself alone. [ Vihischti ]

The fool of vanity; for her alone he lives, loves, writes, and dies but to be known. [ Canning ]

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. [ Thoreau ]

Alone each heart must cover up its dead; alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest. [ Bayard Taylor ]

He is never less at leisure than when at leisure, nor less alone than when he is alone. [ Cicero ]

Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation. [ Earl of Beaconsfield ]

Very few men understand the true significance of contentment; women alone illustrate it. [ Mme. Deluzy ]

Wit is a zero added to our moral qualities; but which, standing alone, represents nothing. [ C. Jordan ]

Respect my independence! Lisette alone has the right to smile when I say: I am independent! [ Beranger ]

Where are the forms the sculptor's soul hath seized? In him alone. Can nature show as fair? [ Byron ]

Time restores all things. Wrong! Time restores many things, but eternity alone restores all. [ Joseph Roux ]

Good-will is everything in morals, but nothing in art; in art, capability alone is anything. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]

God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers, and clouds and stars. [ Luther ]

Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated. [ Lamartine ]

It is the wise alone who are capable of discerning that impartial justice is the truest mercy. [ Goldsmith ]

It requires two indiscreet persons to institute a quarrel; one individual cannot quarrel alone. [ Aime-Martin ]

When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone. [ Scott ]

It is to be doubted whether he will ever find the way to heaven who desires to go thither alone. [ Feltham ]

Great patriots must be men of great excellence; this alone can secure to them lasting admiration. [ H. Giles ]

Not the zeal alone of those who seek Him proves God, but the blindness of those who seek Him not. [ Pascal ]

High positions are like the summit of high, steep rocks: eagles and reptiles alone can reach them. [ Mme. Necker ]

People call eloquence the facility that some have in speaking alone and for a great length of time. [ Pascal ]

While you are prosperous, you can number many friends; but when the storm comes, you are left alone. [ Ovid ]

True courage scorns to vent her prowess in a storm of words; and to the valiant, action alone speaks. [ Tobias Smollett ]

There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people. [ M. de Bonald ]

The beginning and the end of love are both marked by embarrassment when the two find themselves alone. [ La Bruyere ]

The dark grave, which knows all secrets, can alone reclaim the fatal doubt once cast on a woman's name. [ George Herbert ]

All who suffer are full of hatred; all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains. [ Victor Hugo ]

It is motive alone that gives real value to the actions of men, and disinterestedness puts the cap to it. [ Bruyere ]

Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone carry themselves into practice. [ Mencius ]

As long as you are fortunate you will have many friends, but if the times become cloudy you will be alone. [ Ovid ]

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [ Tacitus ]

The greatest satisfaction a woman can feel is to know that a man whom many other women love loves her alone.

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity. [ Horace Mann ]

There are persons who do not know how to waste their time alone, and hence become the scourge of busy people. [ De Bonald ]

The haughty woman who can stand alone, and requires no leaning-place in our hearts, loses the spell of her sex. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men will know how things are. [ Colton ]

The future of society is in the hands of the mothers. If the world was lost through woman, she alone can save it. [ De Beaufort ]

Avarice is the most opposite of all characters to that of God Almighty, whose alone it is to give and not receive. [ Shenstone ]

No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more than she can be witty only by the help of speech. [ Hughes ]

Genuine work alone, what thou workest faithfully, that is eternal a the Almighty Founder and world-builder himself. [ Carlyle ]

Life is before you, - not earthly life alone, but life - a thread running interminably through the warp of eternity. [ J. G. Holland ]

God alone is entirely exempt from all want: of human virtues, that which needs least is the most absolute and divine. [ Plutarch ]

Poetry is in itself strength and joy, whether it be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in its own magic hermitage. [ Sterling ]

Knowledge, wit, and courage alone excite our admiration; and thou, sweet and modest Virtue, remainest without honors. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

Two similar faces, neither of which alone causes laughter, use laughter when they are together, by their resemblance. [ Pascal ]

Happy that heart in which no more idols are to be found, but the holy God dwelling there alone as in His holy temple. [ R. Leighton ]

Well does Agathon say: Of this alone is even God deprived - the power of making that which is past never to have been. [ Aristotle ]

Two sentiments alone suffice for man, were he to live the age of the rocks - love, and the contemplation of the Deity. [ Watts ]

Associate with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company. [ George Washington ]

Of all the rewards of virtue, the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity. [ Cicero ]

Of some calamity we can have no relief but from God alone; and what would men do, in such a case, if it were not for God? [ Tillotson ]

That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect. [ Hosea Ballou ]

No one is qualified to entertain, or receive entertainment from others, who cannot entertain himself alone with satisfaction. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

Great poets try to describe what all men see and to express what all men feel; if they cannot describe it, they let it alone. [ John Ruskin ]

Great names stand not alone for great deeds; they stand also for great virtues, and, doing them worship, we elevate ourselves. [ H. Giles ]

Women dress less to be clothed than to be adorned. When alone before their mirrors, they think more of men than of themselves. [ Rochebrune ]

Every man must, in a measure, be alone in the world; no heart was ever cast in the same mould, as that which we bear within us. [ F. Berni ]

Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom; that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years of age. [ Carlyle ]

Every man has some peculiar train of thought which he falls back upon when he is alone. This, to a great degree, moulds the man. [ Dugald Stewart ]

The happiest woman sees not gladness alone reflected from her mirror; its surface will inevitably be sometimes dimmed with sighs. [ Mme. Louise Colet ]

Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world. [ Goethe ]

The old prose writers wrote as if they were speaking to an audience; while, among us, prose is invariably written for the eye alone. [ Niebuhr ]

Forgiveness, that noblest of all selfdenial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another. [ Colton ]

In love we never think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love. [ Hazlitt ]

The uniformity which history exhibits in the conduct of man in all ages and climes, is alone compatible with the system of necessity. [ Sir T. C. Morgan ]

Show me the man who would go to heaven alone if he could, and in that man I will show you one who will never be admitted into heaven. [ Feltham ]

None are so seldom found alone, and are so soon tired of their own company, as those coxcombs who are on the best terms with themselves. [ Colton ]

No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and makes the speech. [ James A. Garfield ]

True dignity abides with him alone who, in the silent hour of inward thought, can still suspect and still revere himself in lowliness of heart. [ Wordsworth ]

Brethren, life is passing; youth goes, strength decays. But duty performed, work done for God - this abides forever, this alone is imperishable. [ Richard Fuller ]

Fame may be compared to a scold; the best way to silence her is to let her alone, and she will at last be out of breath in blowing her own trumpet. [ Fuller ]

Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but at the same time best know how to prize them most. [ Caleb C. Colton ]

That state of life is alone suitable to a man in which and for which he was born, and he who is not led abroad by great objects is far happier at home. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

It is most dangerous nowadays for a husband to pay any attention to his wife in public. It always makes people think that he beats her when they are alone. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]

Every great mind seeks to labor for eternity. All men are captivated by immediate advantages; great minds alone are excited by the prospect of distant good. [ Schiller ]

Ministers who threaten death and destruction employ weapons of weakness. Argument and kindness are alone effectual, flavored by the principles of Divine love. [ Hosea Ballou ]

In general, we do well to let an opponent's motives alone. We are seldom just to them. Our own motives on such occasions are often worse than those we assail. [ W. E. Channing ]

No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to live for thyself. [ Seneca ]

Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men.... Everybody knows that Government never began anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs. [ Wendell Phillips ]

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; It is to make use of all our organs, functions, and faculties. This alone gives us the consciousness of existence. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

When Fame stands by us all alone, she is an angel clad in light and strength; but when Love touches her she drops her sword, and fades away, ghostlike and ashamed. [ Ouida ]

Brevity is the body and soul of wit. It is wit itself, for it alone isolates sufficiently for contrasts; because redundancy or diffuseness produces no distinctions. [ Jean Paul Richter ]

I value the education of the intellect not for its present joy alone, but for the greater growth it gives, the enlargement of the cup to take in more and higher joys. [ Parker ]

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair. [ Johnson ]

Nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of the affinities by which alone society should be formed, and the insane levity of choosing associates by others eyes. [ Emerson ]

Good counsel is like unto well-water, that must be drawn up with a pump or bucket; ill counsel is like to conduit-water, which if the cork be but turned runs out alone. [ Bishop Hall ]

A beginner should study the raciest, strongest, best spoken speech, and let the printed speech alone. Write straight from the thought, without bothering about the manner. [ William D. Howells, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]

Truth may work mightily though in the hand of the sorriest instrument; in the case of the beautiful alone the casket constitutes the jewel (the vessel makes the content). [ Friedrich Schiller ]

O future ages, what will be your fate? Glory, like a shadow, has returned to heaven; Love no longer exists; life is devastated; and man, left alone, believes but in Death. [ A. de Musset ]

It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is, and what shifts we make to escape thinking. There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds. [ Lowell ]

That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Rest and undisturbed content have now no place on earth, nor can the greatest affluence of worldly good procure them, ... they are peculiar to the love and fruition of God alone. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

America has furnished to the world the character of Washington! And if our American institutions had done nothing else, that alone would have entitled them to the respect of mankind. [ Daniel Webster ]

Wisdom sits alone, topmost in heaven: she is its light, its God; and in the heart of man she sits as high, though groveling minds forget her oftentimes, seeing but this world's idols. [ N. P. Willis ]

Death alone of the gods loves not gifts, nor do you need to offer incense or libations; he cares not for altar nor hymn; the goddess of Persuasion alone of the gods has no power over him. [ Horace ]

It is hard to mesmerize ourselves, to whip our own top; but through sympathy we are capable of energy and endurance. Concert fires people to a certain fury of performance they can rarely reach alone. [ Emerson ]

Well was it said by a man of sagacity that dancing was a sort of privileged and reputable folly, and that the best way to be convinced of this was to close the ears and judge of it by the eyes alone. [ Gotthold ]

Man is of the earth, but his thoughts are with the stars. A pigmy standing on the outward crest of this small planet, his far-reaching spirit stretches outward to the infinite, and there alone finds rest. [ Carlyle ]

Many men want wealth, - not a competence alone, but a five-story competence. Everything subserves this; and religion they would like as a sort of lightning-rod to their houses, to ward off by and by the bolts of Divine wrath. [ Beecher ]

Laissez faire, the "let alone" principle, is, in all things which man has to do with, the principle of death. It is ruin to him, certain and total, if he lets his land alone, if he lets his fellow-men alone, if he lets his own soul alone. [ John Ruskin ]

To be left alone in the wide world with scarcely a friend, - this makes the sadness which, striking its pang into the minds of the young and the affectionate, teaches them too soon to watch and interpret the spirit-signs of their own hearts. [ Hawthorne ]

I have often heard it said, and I believe it to be true, that even the most eloquent man living, and however deeply impressed with the subject, could scarcely find utterance if he were to be standing up alone, and speaking only against a dead wall. [ Erskine ]

Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit: but a just contempt of an enemy can alone arise in those who feel that they are superior to their opponent by the prudence of their measures. [ Thucydides ]

Rhetoric is appealing to the passions instead of the reason of your auditors, and claiming that value for the workmanship which ought to be measured by the ore alone. An orator is one who can stamp such a value upon counterfeit coin as shall make it pass for genuine. [ Chatfield ]

Intellect alone, however exalted, without strong feelings - without even, irritable sensibility - would be only like an immense magazine of powder, if there were no such element as fire in the natural world. It is the heart which is the spring and fountain of all eloquence. [ Lord Erskine ]

Perhaps that is nearly the perfection of good writing which is original, but whose truth alone prevents the reader from suspecting that it is so; and which effects that for knowledge which the lens effects for the sunbeam, when it condenses its brightness in order to increase its force. [ Colton ]

Man reconciles himself to almost any event, however trying, if it happens in the ordinary course of nature. It is the extraordinary alone that he rebels against. There is a moral idea associated with this feeling; for the extraordinary appears to be something like an injustice of heaven. [ Humboldt ]

The silent power of books is a great power in the world; and there is a joy in reading them which those alone can know who read them with desire and enthusiasm. Silent, passive, and noiseless though they be, they may yet set in action countless multitudes, and change the order of nations. [ Henry Giles ]

Partake or Eat? Partake, meaning to take a part of in common with others, to participate, is often affectedly used as a synonym of eat. It is correct to say that two or more persons partake of dinner, as they may partake of anything else. But, for the individual who eats alone, to say he partook of refreshments is an egregious blunder. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

Metaphysicians have been learning their lessons for the last four thousand years, and it is high time that they should now begin to teach us something. Can any of the tribe inform us why all the operations of the mind are carried on with undiminished strength and activity in dreams, except the judgment, which alone is suspended and dormant? [ Colton ]

We enter our studies, and enjoy a society which we alone can bring together. We raise no jealousy by conversing with one in preference to another; we give no offence to the most illustrious by questioning him as long as we will, and leaving him as abruptly. Diversity of opinion raises no tumult in our presence: each interlocutor stands before us, speaks or is silent, and we adjourn or decide the business at our leisure. [ Landor ]

It is good for any man to be alone with nature and himself, or with a friend who knows when silence is more sociable than talk, In the wilderness alone, there where nature worships God. It is well to be in places where man is little and God is great, where what he sees all around him has the same look as it had a thousand years ago, and will have the same, in all likelihood, when he has been a thousand years in his grave. It abates and rectifies a man, if he is worth the process. [ Sydney Smith ]

Many a good intention dies from inattention. If, through carelessness or indolence, or selfishness, a good intention is not put into effect, we have lost an opportunity, demoralized ourselves, and stolen from the pile of possible good. To be born and not fed, is to perish. To launch a ship and neglect it is to lose it. To have a talent and bury it, is to be a wicked and slothful servant. For in the end we shall be judged, not alone by what we have done, but by what we could have done. [ Maltbie Babcock ]

The drama is not a mere copy of nature, not a facsimile. It is the free running hand of genius, under the impression of its liveliest wit or most passionate impulses, a thousand times adorning or feeling all as it goes; and you must read it, as the healthy instinct of audiences almost always does, if the critics will let them alone, with a grain of allowance, and a tendency to go away with as much of it for use as is necessary, and the rest for the luxury of laughter, pity, or poetical admiration. [ Leigh Hunt ]

Who can fathom the depth of a mother's love! No friendship so pure, so devoted; the wild storm of adversity and the bright sunshine of prosperity are all alike to her; however unworthy we may be of that affection, a mother never ceases to love her erring child. Often, when alone, as we gaze up to the starry heaven, can we in imagination catch a glimpse of the angels around the great white throne, and among the brightest and fairest of them all is our sweet mother, ever beckoning us onward and upward to her celestial home. [ R. Smith ]