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In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.

Methinks, if I loved him more, I should keep him--I should keep myself rather--at a more respectful distance.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

Tell all my friends in Concord that I do not send my love, but retain it still.

depend upon it, you will love your native hills the better for being separated from them

At death our friends and relations either draw nearer to us and are found out, or depart further from us and are forgotten.

Fatal is the discovery that our friend is fallible, that he has prejudices.

Now at least the moon is full, and I walk alone, which is best by night, if not by day always.

Our thoughts would imply that other men have friends, though we have not.

The dear privacy and retirement and solitude which winter makes possible!

I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer

What signifies the census--this periodical numbering of men--to one who has no friend?