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By 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 which he hears, however measured or far away.
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- Walden; or, Life in the Woods, 1854 · Conclusion, p. 348
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- Internet Archive (Boston Public Library scan of the Ticknor and Fields edition)
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From the chapter "Conclusion" of Walden; or, Life in the Woods (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854). This is the text of the first edition.