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. Walden - Page 500by Henry David Thoreau - 1897Full view - About this book
| Lady Lindsay (Caroline Blanche Elizabeth) - 1894 - 182 pages
...prove how much, so to speak, could be made of them. Dora shrugged her shoulders again. CHAPTER II. If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps...he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the musie which he hears, however measured or far away.—THOREAU. THE old town and the new town are divided... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1902 - 682 pages
...comes to be a touching significance in the plea which he puts forward for his own idiosyncrasies : ' If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps...hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.' Johann Georg Zimmermann was a type of what is unhappily a... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1902 - 684 pages
...comes to be a touching significance in the plea which he puts forward for his own idiosyncrasies : ' If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps...hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.' Johann Georg Zimmermann was a type of what is unhappily a... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - Authors, American - 1906 - 428 pages
...which they express by snoring. Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half-witted with the halfwitted, because we appreciate only a...he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the V music which he hears, however measured or far away. It is not important that he should mature as... | |
| Fred Wilbur Powell - 1917 - 220 pages
...most chivalrous, the kindest, and the most thoughtless people in tlie world. — Gouverneur Morris. If a man does not keep pace with his companions perhaps...hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music that he hears, however measured or far away. — Thoreau. PREFACE In this monograph is presented the... | |
| Mary Hosmer Brown - Authors, American - 1926 - 138 pages
...suit Alcott's vegetarian taste. If he seemed different from other men it was because, as he wrote, "If a man does not keep pace with his companions,...perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer." It was just this that gave value to his contributions to the world. Whatever notes he heard from that... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1908 - 320 pages
...pigmies, and not be the biggist pigmy that he can ? Let every one mind his own business, and endeavour to be what he was made. Why should we be in such desperate...man! does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps itiis because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - Government, Resistance to - 1910 - 482 pages
...biggest pygmy that he can ? Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made. 7 Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? JS a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.... | |
| Thomas Merton - Religion - 2010 - 350 pages
...believed that the American revolution had either misfired or had never really taken place. Thoreau said: "If a man does not keep pace with his companions,...hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away." It is an admirable title for the most mythical and in some... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means - Finance, Public - 1972 - 890 pages
...University of Michigan in law philosophy and history, taking the masters degree in philosophy with honors. If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps...hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or however far away. How an overwhelming majority of the Michigan electorate... | |
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