Solitude is obviously dangerous for people with active brains. We need men around us who have ideas and like talking. Leave us alone for any length of time, and we start filling the void with supernatural creatures.
We ask no sympathy from others in the anxiety and agony of a __roken friendship or shattered love. When death sunders our nearest_ ties, alone we sit in the shadow of our affliction. Alike mid the greatest __riumphs and darkest tragedies of life we walk alone. On the divine __eights of human attainments, eulogized and worshiped as a hero or __aint, we stand alone. In ignorance, poverty, and vice, as a pauper or __riminal, alone we starve or steal; alone we suffer the sneers and rebuffs__f our fellows; alone we are hunted and hounded through dark courts__nd alleys, in by-ways and highways; alone we stand in the judgment_ seat; alone in the prison cell we lament our crimes and misfortunes; alone we expiate them on the gallows. In hours like these we realize the __wful solitude of individual life, its pains, its penalties, its responsibilities; hours in which the youngest and most helpless are thrown on their own resources for guidance and consolation. Seeing then that life must ever be a march and a battle, that each soldier must be equipped for his own protection, it is the height of cruelty to rob the individual of a single natural right.
The Woman's Bible
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We ask no sympathy from others in the anxiety and agony of a __roken friendship or shattered love. When death sunders our nearest_ ties, alone we sit in the shadow of our affliction. Alike mid the greatest __riumphs and darkest tragedies of life we walk alone. On the divine __eights of human attainments, eulogized and worshiped as a hero or __aint, we stand alone. In ignorance, poverty, and vice, as a pauper or __riminal, alone we starve or steal; alone we suffer the sneers and rebuffs__f our fellows; alone we are hunted and hounded through dark courts__nd alleys, in by-ways and highways; alone we stand in the judgment_ seat; alone in the prison cell we lament our crimes and misfortunes; alone we expiate them on the gallows. In hours like these we realize the __wful solitude of individual life, its pains, its penalties, its responsibilities; hours in which the youngest and most helpless are thrown on their own resources for guidance and consolation. Seeing then that life must ever be a march and a battle, that each soldier must be equipped for his own protection, it is the height of cruelty to rob the individual of a single natural right.
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