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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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
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Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
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In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure
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Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science
It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
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. Men remain in their present low and primitive condition; but if they should feel the influence of the spring of springs arousing them, they would of necessity rise to a higher and more ethereal life.
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I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.
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No man with a genius for legislation has appeared in America. They are rare in the history of the world. There are orators, politicians, and eloquent men, by the thousand; but the speaker has not yet opened his mouth to speak who is capable of settling the much-vexed questions of the day.
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All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
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The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
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In the Catholic Church, especially, they go into chancery, make a clean confession, give up all, and think to start again. Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.
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