I wanted to live
deep and suck out all the marrow of life.
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To drive life into
a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms.
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We live meanly,
like ants.
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I say, let your
affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a
million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.
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Men say that a
stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitches today to save
nine tomorrow.
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Never dreaming the
while that he lives in the dark unfathomed mammoth cave of this world, and
has but the rudiment of an eye himself.
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Let us spend one
day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every
nutshell and mosquito’s wing that falls on the rails
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Let us settle
ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush of
opinion, and prejudice…till we come to a hard bottom and rocks in place,
which we can call reality, and say, THIS IS, and no mistake;
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Friday, December 12, 2014
December 11-Walden comic
Did a comic strip picture for each of the following sentences:
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