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LIES (See Lying)



{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = If you will do some deed before you die, Remember not this caravan of death, But have belief that every little breath Will stay with you for an eternity. Abu'l Ala. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Bacchyltdes, Vauvenakques) | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Life | page = 440 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Spesso 6 da forte, Piu che il morire, il vivere. Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die. Alfteri—Oreste. IV. 2. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Life | page = 440 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = I know not if the dark or bright Shall be my lot; If that wherein my hopes delight Be best or not. Henry M. Alfort>—Life's Answer. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Life | page = 440 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers. Hans Christian Andersen—Preface to Works. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Life | page = 440 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again? Archilochus—See Plutarch's Morals. Vol. I. Essay on the Laws, etc., of the Lacedemonians. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Life | page = 440 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the stock be good, there springs up for a time a succession of splendid men; and then comes a period of barrenness. Aristotle—Rhetoric. 11. 15. Par. III. Quoted by Bishop Feaser. Sermon. Feb. 9, 1879. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Life | page = 440 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = We are the voices of the wandering wind, Which moan for rest and rest can never find; Lo! as the wind is so is mortal life, A moan, a sigh, a sob, a storm, a strife. Edwin Arnold—Light of Asia. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Life | page = 440 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Life, which all creatures love and strive to keep Wonderful, dear and pleasant unto each, Even to the meanest; yea, a boon to all Where pity is, for pity makes the world Soft to the weak and noble for the strong. Edwin Arnold—Light of Asia. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Life | page = 440 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish 'twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern. Matthew Arnold—Morality. St. 2. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Life | page = 440 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Saw life steadily and saw it whole. | author = Matthew Arnold | work = Sonnet to a Friend. | place = | note = (Said of Sophocles.) | topic = Life | page = 440 }} 