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234 Man quotes by Henry David Thoreau

• When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?
• Pity the man who has a character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is silent poor indeed.
• We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity…
• Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself…
• Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with…
• Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.
• The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible…
• If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man's…
• If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music…
• If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show him . .…
• Instead of water we got here a draught of beer, a lumberer's drink, which would acclimate and naturalize a man at once,-which would make him…
• Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need. If you give money, spend yourself with it, and do not merely abandon…
• How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile.
• It is the man determines what is said, not the words.
• What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another…
• Absolutely speaking, Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you is by no means a golden rule, but the best of…
• I do not value any view of the universe into which man and the institutions of man enter very largely and absorb much of the…
• By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning and the evening,…
• Ah! I need solitude. I have come forth to this hill at sunset to see the forms of the mountains in the horizon - to…
• If I deny the authority of the State when it presents my tax bill, it will soon take and waste all my property, and so…
• Much is said about the progress of science in these centuries. I should say that the useful results of science had accumulated, but that there…
• Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.
• Man cannot afford to be a naturalist, to look at Nature directly, but only with the side of his eye. He must look through and…
• Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them - that it was a vain endeavor?
• The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.

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