 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.  The Vassar Miscellany - Page 1741890Full view - About this book
 | Chambers's journal - 1858 - 432 pages
...to my window, attracted by my light, barked a vulpine curse at me, and then retreated.' Mr Thoreau went to the woods, because he wished to live deliberately,...to front only the essential facts of life, and see whether he could learn what it had to teach ; so that when he came to die, he might not discover that... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1865 - 476 pages
...and more in harmony with the broad complacent meadow and the placid lapse of streams. He went into the woods, because he " wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life." Pan's mysterious piping drew him still deeper into solitude, by the paths of streams and the tracks... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1865 - 456 pages
...with the broad complacent meadow and the placid lapse of streams. He went into the woods, because be " wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life." Pan's mysterious piping drew him still deeper into solitude, by the paths of streams and the tracks... | |
 | Wilson Flagg - 1872 - 550 pages
...solitude of the forest hoped to perpetuate them in his life. He says : " 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."... | |
 | University magazine - 1877 - 810 pages
...especial business of daily living Thoreau gives his own account : — " I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I emitl not learn what it bad to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.... | |
 | Education - 1921 - 744 pages
...and retired to the woods to lead the life of a recluse. "I went to the woods," he writes, "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.... | |
 | Franklin Benjamin Sanborn - 1882 - 362 pages
...giving up his hermitage«, lie, in fact, as hu says himself, — " Went to the woods localise h«! wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if he cuiiU not learn rt hat it had to teach, and not, when hu came to die, discover that he had not lived."... | |
 | 1887 - 732 pages
...He had 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
...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, 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.... | |
 | Henry S. Salt - American literature - 1888 - 264 pages
...solitary. He had 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,... | |
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