 | 1887 - 732 pages
...higher aims ! than the anchorites of old. He went to the ' woods, as he himself has told rs, because he wished "to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life." So far he was like the hermit of the East. But it was only а two-year»' sojourn, not a life- visit... | |
 | Margaret Sidney - Concord (Mass.) - 1888 - 120 pages
...apace. Why did Thoreau turn from the haunts of men, to a life in the woods? His own words tell us: " I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...came to die, discover that I had not lived. ... I wanted to live deep, and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to... | |
 | Henry S. Salt - American literature - 1888 - 264 pages
...higher aims than the anchorites of old. He went to the woods, as he himself has told us, because he wished " to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life." So far he was like the hermits of the east. But it was only a two-years' sojourn, not a lifevisit,... | |
 | Henry S. Salt - Authors, American - 1890 - 340 pages
...cheaply nor to live dearly there, but to transact some private business with the fewest obstacles. ... I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...practise resignation unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as... | |
 | Havelock Ellis - Authors - 1890 - 268 pages
...different temperament, resolved to go out into the world, to absorb Nature and the health of Nature : " I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential...practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - Liberalism (Religion) - 1890 - 676 pages
...support himself for five years. Lived in his shanty at Waiden on some fifteen dollars a year. He says: "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow... | |
 | United States - 1903 - 696 pages
...book, "Walden," in which he records his experiences as hermit at Walden Pond, he writes : "I went into the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to...and see if I could not learn what it had to teach — I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like... | |
 | Havelock Ellis - Authors - 1890 - 268 pages
...different temperament, resolved to go out into the world, to absorb Nature and the health of Nature : " I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential...see if I could , not learn what it had to teach, and n\ .1 I came to die, discover that I had not livev . I did not wish to live what was not life, living... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1890 - 174 pages
...To affect the quality of the day, — that is the highest of arts. w«j>i3«,p.9&. beauty Real Hie. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear ; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. WAUW.PJ*. as two or three, and not a hundred or... | |
 | College students' writings, American - 1915 - 552 pages
...escape its self-made conventions, and get back to its primal state. "I went to the woods says Thoreau because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life. * * *" But the essentials of life are not found by fleeing one's fellow-men. Emerson was misinterpreted;... | |
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. 
