If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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