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. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Civil disobedience, Walden

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Walden, Chapter 18: Conclusion

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1854

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