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{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Through the sequester'd vale of rural life The venerable patriarch guileless held The tenor of his way. Pokteus—Death. L. 109. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Gat) | topic = Life | page = 450 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Amid two seas, on one small point of land, Wearied, uncertain, and amazed we stand. Prior—Solomon on the Vanity of Human Wishes. Pt. III. L. 616. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Lillo}}) | topic = Life | page = 450 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Who breathes must suffer; and who thinks, must mourn; And he alone is bless'd who ne'er was born. Prior—Solomon on the Vanity of the World. Bk. III. L. 240. | topic = Life | page = 450 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = So vanishes our state; so pass our days; So life but opens now, and now decays; The cradle and the tomb, alas! so nigh, To live is scarce distinguish'd from to die. | author = Prior | work = Solomon on the Vanity of the World. | place = Bk. III. L. 527. | topic = Life | page = 450 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Half my life is full of sorrow, Half of joy, still fresh and new; One of these lives is a fancy, But the other one is true. Adelaide A. Procter—Dream-Life. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Life | page = 450 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. Psalms. XXXIX. 4. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Life | page = 450 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = As for man his days are as grass; as a flower of the field so he flourisheth. Psalms. CHI. 15. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Life | page = 450 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more. Psalms. CHI. 16. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Life | page = 450 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Our life is nothing but a Winter's day; Some only break their Fast, and so away: Others stay to Dinner, and depart full fed: The deepest Age but Sups, and goes to Bed: He's most in debt that lingers out the Day: Who dies betime, has less, and less to pay. Quarles—Divine Fancies. On The Life of Man. (1633) Quoted in different forms for epitaphs. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Dryden, Gerhard, Henslaw, Jenkins, Seneca}}) | topic = Life | page = 450 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Man's life is like a Winter's day: Some only breakfast and away; Others to dinner stay and are full fed. The oldest man but sups and goes to bed. Long is his life who lingers out the day, Who goes the soonest has the least to pay; Death is the Waiter, some few run on tick, And some alas! must pay the bill to Nick! Tho' I owed much, I hope long trust is given, And truly mean to pay all bills in Heaven. Epitaph in Barnwell Churchyard, near Cambridge, England. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Life | page = 450 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Et la commencay a, penser qu'i] est bien vray ce que l'on dit, que la moitie du monde ne scait comment l'aultre vit. And there I began to think that it is very true, which is said, that half the world does not know how the other half lives. Rabelais—Pantagruel. Ch. XXXII. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Life | page = 450 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Vivat, fifat, pipat, bibat. May he live, fife, pipe, drink. Rabelais—Pantagruel. Bk. IV. Ch. 53. Called by Epistemon, "O secret apocalyptique." It suggests "Old King Cole." | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Life | page = 450 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age. Paul Jean Richter. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Life | page = 450 }}