Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Privacy
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Friends will be much apart. They will respect more each other's privacy than their communion.
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The man of genius, like a dog with a bone, or the slave who has swallowed a diamond, or a patient with the gravel, sits afar and retired, off the road, hangs out no sign of refreshment for man and beast, but says, by all possible hints and signs, I wish to be alone,--good-by,--fare-well. But the Landlord can afford to live without privacy.
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I make my own time. I make my own terms. I cannot see how God or Nature can ever get the start of me.
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Wherever you may seek solitude, men will ferret you out and compel you to belong to their desperate company of oddfellows.
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Any moral philosophy is exceedingly rare. This of Menu addresses our privacy more than most. It is a more private and familiar, and at the same time, a more public and universal word, than is spoken in parlor or pulpit nowadays.
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There is commonly sufficient space about us. Our horizon is never quite at our elbows.
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