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The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
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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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I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
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To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.
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Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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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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Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
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Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.
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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
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The law will never make a man free it is men who have got to make the law free.
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If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.
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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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In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
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Men have become the tools of their tools.
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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.
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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.