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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 which he hears, however measured or far away.”
“It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
“For what Pericles said to the Athenians has long been true of this commonwealth: ’We do not imitate—for we are a model to others.’”
“Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.”
“Follow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour.”
A personal reflection on education, work, failure, mortality and the importance of following one’s own path.