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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

Haste

Man

Succeed

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

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.

Henry David Thoreau

Music

Man

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

Henry David Thoreau

Man

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

Henry David Thoreau

Man

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

Henry David Thoreau

Man

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.