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“Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 231ca3aead11f54b29678d5cbc7edc3b60eabc0f8416ad786c15d0b73d0ad025
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“That inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude.”
William Wordsworth
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William Cowper
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