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When you need Henry David Thoreau's lens on Dreams, this is your reference library. Every quote is sourced and contextualized, giving you immediate access to their best thinking on the subject. Use this collection to inform decisions, challenge assumptions, or find clarity when Dreams becomes complex. Henry David Thoreau's approach offers practical frameworks that ambitious professionals can apply without translation.
"The life that I aspire to liveNo man proposeth me—No trade upon the streetWears its emblazonry. "The Black Knight", l. 11. The Dial (October 1842) p. 180"
"The heavens are as deep as our aspirations are high. Quoted in Maturin M. Ballou (ed.) Pearls of Thought (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1881) p. 21"
"The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them. July 14, 1852"
"Gradually the village murmur subsided, and we seemed to be embarked on the placid current of our dreams, floating from past to future as silently as one awakes to fresh morning or evening thoughts."
Website: Wikiquote - Henry David Thoreau (A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849))
"Dreams are the touchstones of our characters."
Website: Wikiquote - Henry David Thoreau (A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849))
"My life has been the poem I would have writ,But I could not both live and utter it. My Life Has Been a Poem I Would Have Writ"
Website: Wikiquote - Henry David Thoreau (A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849))
"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours ... In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. p. 364"
"Commonly misquoted, converted to imperative mood, as "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler"."
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