keep pace

Verb

Meaning

maintain the same pace

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In order to keep pace with the influx of work I had to take on fresh hands. James Nasmyth

Let go of me or slow down," she demanded as she tried to keep pace with him. He slowed down. "I swear to God, you try the patience of a saint." "You aren't a saint, Brodick, no matter what your mother might have told you. Julie Garwood

Our thinking is becoming much more morose than precise. ... Capacity of thought does not keep pace with what is problematic. Hence the self-abdication of critique. ... Because everything has become problematic, everything is also somehow a matter of indifference. Peter Sloterdijk

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. Henry David Thoreau

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Henry David Thoreau

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. Henry David Thoreau

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