Analects of the Core: Thoreau on confidence and success

February 10, 2011 at 2:21 pm

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.

— Henry David Thoreau, from the Conclusion to Walden, which book students will be reading this spring in CC202: From the Enlightenment to Modernity.

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