Henry David Thoreau quotes on men

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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Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

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It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

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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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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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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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