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keep pace
«It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in general. The farmer philosophizes in terms of crops, soils, markets, and implements, the mechanic generalizes his experiences of wood and iron, the seaman reaches similar conclusions by his own special road; and if the scholar keeps pace with these it must be by an equally virile productivity.»
Author: Charles Horton Cooley
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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.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Music,
Relationships
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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.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Business,
Success
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«The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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decline, downward, indicates, keep pace
«Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.»
«The chance is the remotest, Of its going much longer unnoticed, That I'm not keeping pace With the headlong human race»
«In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand, which has been carried to such a perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid speaker. But the inventing of such things is drudgery for the lowest slaves; philosophy lies deeper. It is not her office to teach men how to use their hands. The object of her lessons is to form the soul.»