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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....
• When a dog runs at you, whistle for him. -- Henry David Thoreau
• 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 and far away. Henry David Thoreau...
• Only that day dawns to which we are awake. -- Henry David Thoreau, Walde
• Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn.
  The sun is but a morning star. -- Henry David Thoreau, Walde...
• If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
  Henry David Thoreau...
• That government is best which governs least. -- Henry David Thoreau, "Civil Disobedience
• In the long run, men only hit what they aim at. -- Henry David Thoreau
• It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong
  he may still properly have other concerns to engage him...