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«I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor»
«New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States»
Author: Simeon Strunsky
| About:
New York
| Keywords:
deserts, forests, hermit, hermits, New York State
«Hermits have no peer pressure.»
Author: Steven Wright
(Comedian)
| Keywords:
hermit, hermits, peer, peering, pressure, pressured, Too Much Pressure
«E'en her fair hand, which might bid heat return To Frozen age, and make old hermits burn, Applied to my dead cinder, warms no more Than fire to ashes, could past flames restore»
«Taking food alone tends to make one hard and coarse. Those accustomed to it must lead a Spartan life if they are not to go downhill. Hermits have observed, if for only this reason, a frugal diet. For it is only in company that eating is done justice; food must be divided and distributed if it is to be well received.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
(Essayist, Theologian, Writer)
| Keywords:
accustomed, be well, coarse, diet, distributed, downhill, frugal, hermit, hermits, observed, Spartan, tends, tends to
«HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable.»
«Politicians need religion even more than a hermit in retreat. If a hermit acts out of bad motivation, he harms no one but himself. But if someone who can directly influence the whole of society acts with bad motivation, then a great number of people will be adversely affected.»
Author: Dalai Lama
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adversely, affected, Bad Religion, directly, Great Society, harms, hermit, hermits, motivation, Politicians, retreat, whole number
«The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.»
«If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| Keywords:
ecstasy, height, hermit, hermits, relinquish, relinquished, relinquishing
«Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room;And hermits are contented with their cells.»
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