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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. "
Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine - Page 338
edited by - 1925
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Walden, Or, Life in the Woods

Henry David Thoreau - Authors, American - 1893 - 550 pages
...up, such paltry information as we get, the oracles woidd distinctly inform us how this might be done. 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...
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The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 2

Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 536 pages
...paltry information as we get, the oracles would distinctly inform . *r*\ us how this might be done. x/ยป I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts 7>1 lite, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover...
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Mitteilungen aus dem gesammten Gebiete der englischen Sprache und ..., Volume 1

English philology - 1891 - 424 pages
...went to the woods because l wished to live deliberately, to front only the essuntial facts ut' lit'e, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not. wlicn l camc to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not lit'e, living...
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An Introduction to the Study of American Literature

Brander Matthews - American literature - 1896 - 310 pages
...tells us, "because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and to see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and...when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." Some of the readers of " Walden " did not seize the point of this declaration. Whittier wrote to a...
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American Literature

Katharine Lee Bates - American literature - 1897 - 438 pages
...civilization or from surly motives of misanthropy, but his own words bear no such statements out : " I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...wish to live what was not life, living is so dear." Born in Concord, and graduated at Harvard, he had taught, acquired proficiency in the family trade...
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Studies in American Literature: A Text-book for Academies and High Schools

Charles Noble - American literature - 1898 - 460 pages
...than many words about him. He thus gives his reasons for going to live in the woods by Walden Pond: 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...
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American Prose: Selections, with Critical Introductions by Various Writers

George Rice Carpenter - American literature - 1898 - 498 pages
...[From A Week on the Concord, etc., " Friday." The text is that of the first edition.] PERSONAL AIMS 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...
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american prose

george rice carpenter - 1898 - 498 pages
...[From A Week on the Concord, etc., " Friday." The text is that of the first edition.] PERSONAL AIMS 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...
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Personal Sketches of Recent Authors

Hattie Tyng Griswold - Authors, American - 1898 - 398 pages
...and in 1845 he built a cabin on Walden Pond, and retired to it. The reason he gave was "because he wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if he could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when he came to die, discover that he had not lived."...
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Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

Henry David Thoreau - Authors, American - 1899 - 386 pages
...up, such paltry information as we get, the oracles would distinctly inform us how this might be done. 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...
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