 | 1877
...not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to 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 Spartanlike ns to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a... | |
 | University magazine - 1877
...not life, living is so dear ; nor did I wish to 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 Spartanlike tis to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into... | |
 | Wisconsin State Horticultural Society - 1879
...to die, discover that I had not lived. T did not wish to live what was not life; living is so dear; I wanted to live deep, and suck out all the marrow of life." He wrote in his journal, " If I had bestowed upon me the wealth of Croesus, my aims must still be the... | |
 | 1903
...deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach — I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow...rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and cut close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be... | |
 | Peter Anderson Graham - 1891 - 194 pàgines
...reduced it to its simplest elements, brought it within the narrowest compass, or as he himself puts it, ' I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow...put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swathe and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and if it be... | |
 | Peter Anderson Graham - 1891 - 194 pàgines
...rewards of ambition were in his eyes only so many evil apparitions. It was a question of temperament. ' I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life,' but so do others who load themselves with cares and perplexities that they may with the burden still... | |
 | 1891
...wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrovv of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like äs to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad...to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its Iowest teruis, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine uieanness of it,... | |
 | 1900
...could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I 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 put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive... | |
 | 1903
...1876. 2 Waiden, pp. 98, 99, in David Douglas's Edinburgh edition, 1SS4. front only the essential facts of life. ... I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life. . . . Our life is frittered away by detail. . . . In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life,... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1904 - 256 pàgines
...not life, living is so dear ; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow...put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swatli and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it... | |
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... 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. I... 
