Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
a statue, and so to make a
fes beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and
paint tmosphrough which we look, which
morally o affect ty of t is the
of arts. Every man is tasked to make s
details, emplation of elevated and
critical ry
information as , tinctly inform us how
t be done.
I to to live deliberately, to
front only tial facts of life, and see if I could not learn
o teac, I
lived. I did not life, living is
so dear; nor did I ise resignation, unless it e
necessary. I ed to live deep and suck out all the marrow of
life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all
t life, to cut a broad so drive
life into a corner, and reduce it to its lo terms, and, if it
proved to be mean, the whole and genuine meanness of
it, and publiss meanness to t o
kno by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in
my next excursion. For most men, it appears to me, are in a strange
uncertainty about it, he devil or of God, and have
some it is to
quot;glorify God and enjoy ;
Still s; tells us t
we were long ago co men; like pygmies we figh
cranes; it is error upon error, and clout upon clout, and our best
virtue s occasion a superfluous and evitable chedness.
Our life is frittered aail. An man has hardly need
to count more ten fingers, or in extre