I never found the 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.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854),V, Solitude
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.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854),V, Solitude
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- I never found the 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.... - I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. -- Henry David Thoreau
- The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854), I, Economy... - Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate
enterprises?
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.... - Only that day dawns to which we are awake. -- Henry David Thoreau, Walde
- None of our men are "experts." We have most unfortunately found it
necessary to get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an expert
-- because no one ever considers himself expert if he really knows
his job.
A man who knows a job sees so much more to be done than he has done, that he is always pressing forward and never gives up an instant of thought to how good and how efficient he is.... - None of our men are "experts." We have most unfortunately found it necessary
to get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an expert -- because no one
ever considers himself expert if he really knows his job.
A man who knows a job sees so much more to be done than he has done, that he is always pressing forward and never gives up an instant of thought to how good and how efficient he is.... - Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn.
The sun is but a morning star. -- Henry David Thoreau, Walde... - I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately
o front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived....
