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Alone Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself…
- He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports…
- I have heard of a man lost in the woods and dying of famine and exhaustion at the foot of a tree, whose loneliness was…
- Give me a country where it is the most natural thing in the world for a government that does not understand you to let you…
- The poet will write for his peers alone. He will remember only that he saw truth and beauty from his position, and expect the time…
- The imagination never forgets; it is a re-membering. It is not foundationless, but most reasonable, and it alone uses all the knowledge of the intellect.
- But what is quackery? It is commonly an attempt to cure the diseases of a man by addressing his body alone. There is need of…
- What youth or maiden conspires with the wild luxuriant beauty of Nature? She flourishes most alone, far from the towns where they reside.
- Even in our democratic New England towns the accidental possession of wealth, and its manifestation in dress and equipage alone, obtain for the possessor almost…
- It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, ina government ship, with five hundred men and boys to assist…
- The man of genius knows what he is aiming at; nobody else knows. And he alone knows when something comes between him and his object.…
- If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone.
- As if there were safety in stupidity alone
- I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.
- A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
- The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
- I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among…
- No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.
- There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.
- God is alone,-but the devil, he is far from being alone; he sees a great deal of company; he is legion.
- It is not that we love to be alone, but that we love to soar, and when we do soar, the company grows thinner and…
- I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and…
- I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
- It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, in a government ship, with five hundred men and boys to…
- In the streets and in society I am almost invariably cheap and dissipated, my life is unspeakably mean. No amount of gold or respectability would…
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- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads. — Paul Auster
- I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the… — Dido Armstrong
- India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not… — Sri Aurobindo
- Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better… — Jane Austen
- I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone. — Richard Avedon
- Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone… — Teresa of Avila
- While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they… — Teresa of Avila
- The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand… — Diane Ackerman
- The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his… — Ibrahim Babangida
- In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges and threats… — Michelle Bachelet
- We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone? — Anna Letitia Barbauld