...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...

...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...

...principles, what is life and what has it to teach ; and for his answer he went to the woods, there to "drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its...mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness out of it ; ... .or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account...

...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...into a corner and reduce it to its lowest terms." So he went into Walden Woods and built himself a hut, and sowed beans, and grew strangely familiar...

...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 of life, to live...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...

...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 of life, to live...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...

...to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to 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 proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness...

...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,...

...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...into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms," &c. And this he did, with great advantage to himself and to all those who ponder over his sage reflections....

...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...