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He who walks alone, waits for no-one.

He who walks alone, waits for no-one.

Henry David Thoreau
Waiting, Walks

They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy evil, that they may no longer have have it to regret.

Henry David Thoreau
Regret, Evil, Waiting

Life is so short that it is not wise to take roundabout ways, nor can we spend much time in waiting.... We have not got half-way to dawn yet.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Wise, Waiting
Henry David Thoreau (1974). “The correspondence of Henry David Thoreau”, Greenwood Pub Group

Do what you know you ought to do. Why should we ever go abroad, even across the way, to ask a neighbor's advice? There is a nearerneighbor within us incessantly telling us how we should behave. But we wait for the neighbor without to tell us of some false, easier way.

Henry David Thoreau
Waiting, Advice, Way
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1786, Delphi Classics

I hear many condemn these men because they were so few. When were the good and the brave ever in a majority? Would you have had him wait till that time came?--till you and I came over to him?

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Bravery, Waiting
"A Plea for Captain John Brown" (1859)

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