 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.  History of American Literature - Page 201by Reuben Post Halleck - 1911 - 431 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Josephine Latham Swayne - 1906 - 438 pages
...seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one. . . I learned this, at least, by my experiment ; that...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... | |
 | Ernest Albert Baker - 1908 - 316 pages
...world thou'dst been, O, give, to strengthen me. THOREAU The Simple Life T LEARNED this, at least by experiment : that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1910 - 538 pages
...world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now. I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if...will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws... | |
 | William Watson - 1910 - 264 pages
...perfect in himself. Goethe. If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Thoreau. The early painters, To cries of " Greek Art and what more wish you ? " Replied, " To become... | |
 | Mark Van Doren - 1916 - 162 pages
...Journal, II, 316. whither he had gone most confidently to "front only the essential facts of life" : " I learned this, at least, by my experiment : that...the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours." By 1856 he is willing to concede that the fruit of expansion may... | |
 | Edward Waldo Emerson - 1917 - 184 pages
...that "if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life that he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws... | |
 | Edward Waldo Emerson - 1917 - 184 pages
...him. He learned this, he says, by his experiment of a life with Nature simply followed for his guide; that "if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life that he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common... | |
 | Charles Preston Weaver - 1924 - 148 pages
...of his hermit life at Walden Ppndj. a nineteenth-century lover of philosophic solitude-"3 writes : "I learned this, at least, by my experiment : that...will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws... | |
 | 1924 - 152 pages
...account of his hermit life at Walden Pond, a nineteenth-century lover of philosophic solitude-03 writes : "I learned this, at least, by my experiment : that...will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some, things behind, will pass an invisible boundary ; new, universal, and more liberal... | |
 | Lewis Mumford - 1926 - 296 pages
...except those for oblivion4 In his experiment at Walden Pond, Thoreau "learned this, at least . . . that if one advances confidently in the direction...the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in the common hours. ... In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the... | |
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