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 LIFE

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Checker-board of Nights and Days; Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays. Omar Khayyam—Rubaiyat. LXLX. FrrzGerald's trans. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Huxley) | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Life | page = 449 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 15 | text = And fear not lest Existence closing your Account should lose or know the type no more: The Eternal Saki from that Bowl has poured Millions of Bubbles like us and will pour. Omar Khayyam—Rubaiyat. FitzGerald's Trans. (In the edition of 1889 the second line reads: Account and mine, should know the like no more.) < | seealso = (See also {{sc|Bacon}}) | topic = Life | page = 449 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = My life is like the summer rose That opens to the morning sky. But ere the shade of evening close Is scatter'd on the ground to die. Claimed by Patrick O'Kelly. The Simile. Pub. 1824. Authorship doubted. The lines appeared in a Philadelphia paper about 1815-16, attributed to Richard Henry Wilde. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Life | page = 449 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Id quoque, quod vivam, munus habere dei. This also, that I live, I consider a gift of God. Ovid—Tristium. I. 1. 20. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Life | page = 449 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = This life a theatre we well may call, Where very actor must perform with art, Or laugh it through, and make a farce of all, Or learn to bear with grace his tragic part. Palladas. Epitaph in Palatine Anthology. X. 72. As translated by Robert Bland. (From the Greek.) Part of this Sir Thomas Shadwell wished to have inscribed on the monument in Westminster Abbey to his father, Thomas Shadwell. (See {{sc|Quotations}} under {{sc|Acting, World}}) | topic = Life | page = 449 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Condition de l'homme, inconstance, ennui, inquietude. | trans = The state of man is inconstancy, ennui, anxiety. | author = Pascal | work = Pensées. | place = Art. VI. 46. | note = | topic = Life | page = 449 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = On s'eveille, on se leve, on s'habille, et Ton sort; On rentre, on dine, on soupe, on se couche, et Ton dort. One awakens, one rises, one dresses, and one goes forth; One returns, one dines, one sups, one retires and one sleeps. De Pns. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Montenaeken}}) | topic = Life | page = 449 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Natura vero nihil hominibus brevitate vitae praestitit melius. Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of fife. Pliny the Elder—Historia Naturalis. VII. . 3. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Life | page = 449 }}