A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
Tag: Henry David Thoreau
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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, how ever measured or far away.
I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that 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. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary;
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.
What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can.
It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize the infinite extent of our relations.