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Neighbor Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- Even the utmost good-will and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say,…
- Most men appear never to have considered what a house is, and are actually though needlessly poor all their lives because they think that they…
- The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is…
- When you are starting away, leaving your more familiar fields, for a little adventure like a walk, you look at every object with a traveler's,…
- Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.
- Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.
- It is worth the while to live respectably unto ourselves. We can possibly get along with a neighbor, even with a bedfellow, whom we respect…
- When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a…
More Neighbor Quotes
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can… — Chinua Achebe
- How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks. — Marcus Aurelius
- For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn? — Jane Austen
- The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors. — Francis Bacon
- People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors. — Francis Bacon
- Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement. — George Bancroft
- Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant. — George Ade
- Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one. — Nikolai Berdyaev
- There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural… — Alfred Adler
- We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is… — Wendell Berry
- Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors. — Josh Billings