Independence

(250 votes)   I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman -- they are both a cloying treacle to the wings of independence.

John Keats
1795-1821, British Poet

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(249 votes)   The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off.

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

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(134 votes)   In the word of no master am I bound to believe.

Horace
BC 65-8, Italian Poet

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(107 votes)   I am lord of myself, accountable to none.

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(96 votes)   Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to make our children independent from birth. We leave them all alone in rooms with the lights out and tell them, ''Go to sleep by yourselves.'' And the old people we respect most are the ones who will fight for their independence, who would sooner starve to death than ask for help.

Margaret Mead
1901-1978, American Anthropologist

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(91 votes)   The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.

Steve Schmidt

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(82 votes)   So live that you can look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell.

Source Unknown

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