"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation."
― Henry David Thoreau
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Men
― Henry David Thoreau
More From Henry David Thoreau
- "If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
- "To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts."
- "I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."
More In Men
- "We soon found that the white men were growing rich very fast, and were greedy."― Chief Joseph
- "Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life."― Gilbert K. Chesterton
- "Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men."― Ayn Rand