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"If you would be a real seeker after truth,
it is necessary that at least once in your life
you doubt, as far as possible, all things."
—Rene Descartes~ philosopher A Distant Drummer
~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
he hears
however measured
or far away.
Invictus
~William Earnest Henley~
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbow'd.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishment the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
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