We have a collection of 18 Men quotes from Henry David Thoreau
"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation." (ID 43663)
"Men are born to succeed, not to fail." (ID 43710)
"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." (ID 43885)
"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after." (ID 43915)
"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." (ID 43938)
"All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning." (ID 44011)
"Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth." (ID 44047)
"Men have become the tools of their tools." (ID 44094)
"While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings." (ID 44134)
"Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars." (ID 44169)
"In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high." (ID 44212)
"It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes." (ID 44267)
"If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see." (ID 44356)
"The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free." (ID 44358)
"We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches." (ID 44537)
"Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men." (ID 44538)
"Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve." (ID 44540)
"I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men." (ID 44541)
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