All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
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I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
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Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
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Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
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I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
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Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?
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A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
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If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
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Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him.
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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
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How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
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How does it become a man to behave toward this American government today? I answered that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
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