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solitude peculiar thrones
Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne a sceptred hermit, wrapped in the solitude of his own originality. Charles Phillips
solitude company conditions
Solitude is a condition best enjoyed in company. Eleanor Catton
solitude looks elbows
Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone the pleasure in being alone: this is the paradox of any happy solitude. She had never landed at Cork, so this hill and that hill beyond were as unexpected as pictures at which you say "Oh look!" Nobody was beside her to share the moment, which would have been imperfect with anyone else there. Elizabeth Bowen
solitude walks ifs
After all, when you take a walk you're after solitude, and if the solitude won't come to you, you must go to it. Elfriede Jelinek
solitude swedish-actress
I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference. Greta Garbo
solitude isolation conceit
Isolation breeds conceit. Charles Dudley Warner
solitude faces events
In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history? Charles de Gaulle
solitude crowds poet
Multitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet. Charles Baudelaire
solitude littles noise
Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life. Edith Wharton
peculiar produces
Our planet has a peculiar wobble - its precession. And that precession produces upheavals in our weather, weather alterations we cycle through every 22,000, 41,000 and 100,000 years. Howard Bloom
peculiar poet work written
I wouldn't be very happy if a poet read what I had written and said, 'What a peculiar thing to say about this work of mine.' Helen Vendler
peculiar life-is
One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it. Djuna Barnes
peculiar unusual
The process of being filmed was, I found, peculiar but not discomfiting. At 13, you are malleable, adaptable, better able to take the unusual in your stride. James Lovegrove
peculiar virtue
FIDELITY, n. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
peculiar sometimes habit
Life has a peculiar habit -- once established, it stays. Sometimes it even thrives. David Gerrold
peculiar impossible ifs
The word impossible is peculiar because if you examine it closely, you'll find that most of it is possible. Evan Esar
peculiar location problem
The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location. Flannery O'Connor
peculiar
You don't have to be peculiar to find God, Evelyn Underhill
thrones lefties democrat
Obliging elected Democrats willingly pander to the radical lefties who elevated them to their throne. Bob Beauprez
thrones virtue weak
Weak is that throne, and in itself unsound, Which takes not solid virtue for its ground. Charles Churchill
thrones pulpit preacher
I would rather be a preacher in a pulpit than a prince on a throne
thrones married slave
La femme marie e est un esclave qu'il faut savoir mettre sur un tro" n e. A married woman is a slave whom one must put on a throne. Honore de Balzac
thrones tubs found
Diogenes found more rest in his tub than Alexander on his throne. Francis Quarles
thrones empty
An empty throne always tempts me. Napoleon Bonaparte
thrones oratory fierce
Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne. John Milton
thrones slave should
I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse borne away with every breath! Misplaced upon the throne misplaced in life. I know not what I could have been, but feel I am not what I should be let it end. Lord Byron
thrones pants
Pants get shiny even on a throne. Stanislaw Jerzy Lec