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It was written by Henry David Thoreau, an American author (1817-1862) ADDENDUM It is from the last chapter, chapter 18, of Thoreau's Waldon. Here is some of the context: "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. Let

him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple tree

or an oak. Shall he turn his spring into summer? If the condition

of things which we were made for is not yet, what were any reality

which we can substitute? We will not be shipwrecked on a vain

reality. Shall we with pains erect a heaven of blue glass over

ourselves, though when it is done we shall be sure to gaze still at

the true ethereal heaven far above, as if the former were not?"

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