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 THOREAUA man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
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The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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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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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
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I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don’t get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next.
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
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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.
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I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
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