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The Thoreau Institute
at Walden Woods Library
Thoreau's
Life & Writings
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Henry D. Thoreau Mis-Quotations Pages
“Go confidently
in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. As
you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.”
Misquoted
from
Thoreau's Walden: “I learned this, at least, by my
experiment; that 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."
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