Quote by

A man thinking or working will always be alone, let him be where he will.

A man thinking or working will always be alone, let him be where he will.
– Henry David Thoreau

Related Quotes:

  1. A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone. – Henry David Thoreau
  2. If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see. – Henry David Thoreau
  3. The value of a man is not in his skin, that we should touch him. – Henry David Thoreau
  4. There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone. – Henry David Thoreau
  5. In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world. – Henry David Thoreau
  6. I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest. – Henry David Thoreau
  7. How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. – Henry David Thoreau
  8. How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! – Henry David Thoreau
  9. The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard – Henry David Thoreau
  10. Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. – Henry David Thoreau
  11. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. – Henry David Thoreau
  12. The man I meet with is not often so instructive as the silence he breaks. – Henry David Thoreau
  13. Man is an animal who more than any other can adapt himself to all climates and circumstances. – Henry David Thoreau
  14. If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. – Henry David Thoreau
  15. While a kind man was working up the nerve to ask me on a date, I was working up the nerve to kill him with my bare hands – Amy McAuley
  16. Positive thinking is better than negative thinking and… No thinking is far better then positive thinking – Ed Strachar
  17. Before sex, a man isn’t thinking clearly and a woman is thinking clearly. After sex, it reverses. The man is thinking clearly and a woman isn’t. – Sherry Argov
  18. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone. – Gabrielle Zevin
  19. We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for a moment that we’re not alone. – Orson Welles
  20. But he was absolutely alone. No one ever wrote to him. Visited him. Totally alone. And I believe the happiest man I have ever met. – John Fowles
  21. It is not all books that are as dull as their readers. – Henry David Thoreau
  22. Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all. – Henry David Thoreau
  23. In my opinion, the sun was made to light worthier toil than this. – Henry David Thoreau
  24. Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. – Henry David Thoreau
  25. To be awake is to be alive. – Henry David Thoreau
  26. What are these pines & these birds about? What is this pond a-doing? I must know a little more. – Henry David Thoreau
  27. …is not Nature, rightly read, that of which she is commonly taken to be the symbol merely? – Henry David Thoreau
  28. I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things. – Henry David Thoreau
  29. It is life near the bone where it is sweetest. – Henry David Thoreau
  30. God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages. – Henry David Thoreau
  31. There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony. – Henry David Thoreau
  32. The silence rings-”it is musical & thrills me. A night in which the silence was audible-”I hear the unspeakable. – Henry David Thoreau
  33. I will come to you, my friend, when I no longer need you. Then you will find a palace, not an almshouse. – Henry David Thoreau
  34. for the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of government which they have. – Henry David Thoreau
  35. A government which deliberately enacts injustice, and persists in it, will at length ever become the laughing-stock of the world. – Henry David Thoreau
  36. Now-a-days, men wear a fool’s cap, and call it a liberty cap. – Henry David Thoreau
  37. What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on? – Henry David Thoreau
  38. I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. – Henry David Thoreau
  39. It is not enought to be busy, so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about? – Henry David Thoreau
  40. An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. – Henry David Thoreau

More Quotes

, , ,