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{{Hoyt quote | num = 12 | text = Oh, for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me morel | author = Cowper | work = Task. Bk. II. L. 1. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Johnson}} under {{sc|Summer) | topic = Solitude | page = 730 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 13 | text = O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. | author = Cowper | work = Verses supposed to be, written by Alexander Selkirk. | topic = Solitude | page = 730 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 14 | text = Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, and enthusiasm is the true parent of genius. In all ages solitude has been called for—has been flown to. Isaac DTsraeli—Literary Character of Men of Genius. Ch. X. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Solitude | page = 730 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 15 | text = There is a society in the deepest solitude. Isaac D'Israeli—Literary Character of Men of Genius. Ch. X. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Solitude | page = 730 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 16 | text = So vain is the belief That the sequestered path has fewest flowers. | author = Thomas Doubleday | work = Sonnet. The Poet's Solitude. | place = | note = | topic = Solitude | page = 730 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 17 | text = Thrice happy he, who by some shady grove, Far from the clamorous world; doth live his own; Though solitary, who is not alone, But doth converse with that eternal love. Drummond—Urania; or, Spiritual Poems. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Cicero}}) | topic = Solitude | page = 730 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 18 | text = We enter the world alone, we leave it alone. | author = Froude | work = Short Studies on Great Subjects. Sea Studies | topic = Solitude | page = 730 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 19 | text = I was never less alone than wheD by myself. GrBBON—Memoirs. Vol. I. P. 117. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Cicero}}) | topic = Solitude | page = 730 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 20 | text = Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergiebt, Ach! der ist bald allein. Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah' he is soon alone. Goethe—WUhelm Meister. II. 13. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Solitude | page = 730 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 21 | text = Nobody with me at sea but myself. | author = Goldsmith | work = The Haunch of Venison. | topic = Solitude | page = 730 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 22 | text = Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife. | author = Gray | work = Elegy in a Country Churchyard. | place = St. 19. | topic = Solitude | page = 730 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 23 | text = O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap Of murky buildings: climb with me the steep,— Nature's observatory—whence the dell, In flowery slopes, its river's crystal swell, May seem a span; let me thy vigils keep 'Mongst boughs pavilion 'd, where the deer's swift leap Startles the wild bee from the foxglove bell. Kelts*—Sonnet. Solitude' If I Must With Thee Dwell. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Solitude | page = 730 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 24 | text = Why should we faint and fear to live alone, Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die, Nor even the tenderest heart and next our own Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh. Keble—Christian Year. Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Trinity. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Solitude | page = 730 }}