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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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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 dear privacy and retirement and solitude which winter makes possible!
Henry David Thoreauverified·Journal, Volume II: 1850-September 15, 1851 (ed. Bradford Torrey)·December 8, 1850
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What signifies the census--this periodical numbering of men--to one who has no friend?
Henry David Thoreauverified·Journal, Volume II: 1850-September 15, 1851 (ed. Bradford Torrey)·April 29, 1851
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Our thoughts would imply that other men have friends, though we have not.
Henry David Thoreauverified·Journal, Volume II: 1850-September 15, 1851 (ed. Bradford Torrey)·April 29, 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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Now at least the moon is full, and I walk alone, which is best by night, if not by day always.
Henry David Thoreauverified·Journal, Volume II: 1850-September 15, 1851 (ed. Bradford Torrey)·July 12, 1851
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived
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Our life is frittered away by detail
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In society you will not find health, but in nature.