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In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.
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The place of sorrow is supplied, perchance, by a certain hard and proportionately barren indifference.
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My saddest and most genuine sorrows are apt to be but transient regrets.
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Fatal is the discovery that our friend is fallible, that he has prejudices.
Henry David Thoreauverified·Journal, Volume II: 1850-September 15, 1851 (ed. Bradford Torrey)·February 15, 1851
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Having treated my friend ill, I wished to apologize; but, not meeting him, I made an apology to myself.
Henry David Thoreauverified·Journal, Volume II: 1850-September 15, 1851 (ed. Bradford Torrey)·April 22, 1851
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My most sacred and memorable life is commonly on awaking in the morning.
Henry David Thoreauverified·Journal, Volume II: 1850-September 15, 1851 (ed. Bradford Torrey)·May 24, 1851
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation
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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer