...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...

...die, discover that I had not lived. I 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...and reduce it to its lowest terms, and if it proved mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish it to the world ; or if it...

...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,...

...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...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...

...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...Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, and to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its. lowest...

...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 of...rout all that was not life; to cut a broad swath and to shave close; to drive life into a corner and reduce it to its lowest terms; and if it proved to...

...what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. . . I wanted ... to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its...genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the whole world ; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of...

...countrymen fancy that real life is to be had for the seeking in cities. The man who went out wolfishly to " live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms,...

...what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. ... I wanted ... to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its...genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the whole world ; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of...

...to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, 47 to front only the essential facts of life. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life." Was it not life in its very essence that Emerson considered when he said if man "plant himself indomitably...