“Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.”
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Victor Hugo308
French poet, novelist, and dramatist 1802–1885Related quotes
Robert Maynard Hutchins (1899–1977) philosopher and university president
Great Books: The Foundation of a Liberal Education (1954)
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
Variant: 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.
Source: Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
“Each man dreams his own heaven.”
John Connolly The Book of Lost Things
Source: The Book of Lost Things
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
19th August 1826) Metrical Fragments - No. 1 (under the pen name Iole
The London Literary Gazette, 1826
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Fate
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)
Henry David Thoreau book Walden ou la vie dans les bois
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".
Walden (1854)
Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor
Interview in O : The Oprah Magazine (November 2000)