Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 905 |
| AUTHOR: | Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) |
| QUOTATION: | 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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| SUBJECTS: | Individual |