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" 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. "

Henry David Thoreau

Why

Pace

Man

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Who

Than

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Henry David Thoreau

Her

Persuasion

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Henry David Thoreau

Ahead

Behind

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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. "

" Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside. "

" A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend. "

" Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. "

" There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself. "

" It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about? "