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{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Non domus hoc corpus sed hospitium et quidem breve. This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time. Seneca—Epistolce Ad Lucilium. CXX. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Dkyden) | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Life | page = 452419 }}

LIFE

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Quomodo fabula, sic vita: non quam diu, sed quam bene acta sit, refert. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. Seneca—Epistles. LXXXVII. | seealso = (See also {{sc|As You Like It}}) | topic = Life | page = 452 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Prima quae vitam dedit hora, carpit. The hour which gives us life begins to take it away. Seneca—Hercules Furens. VIII. 74. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Life | page = 452 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together. All's Well That Ends Well. Act IV. Sc. 3. L.80. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Life | page = 452 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = excellent! I love long life better than figs. Antony and Cleopatra. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 32. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Life | page = 452 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything. As You Like It. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 15. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Life | page = 452 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe. And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale. As You Like It. Act II. Sc. 7. L. 23. LastphrasemTheTamingofiheShrew. Act IV. Sc. 1; Othello. Act III. Sc. 1. The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act I. Sc. 4. As You Like It. Act II. Sc. 7. Rabelais. Bk.V. Ch.IV. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Pope, Seneca}}) | topic = Life | page = 452 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Why, what should be the fear? do not set my life at a pin's fee. Hamlet. Act I. Sc. 4. L. 66. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Life | page = 452 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = And a man's life's no more than to say "One." Hamlet. Act V. Sc. 2. L. 74. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Life | page = 452 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = gentlemen, the time of life is short! To spend that shortness basely were too long, If life did ride upon a dial's point, Still ending at the arrival of an hour. Henry IV. Pt. I. Act V. Sc. 2. L. 82. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Life | page = 452 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Let life be short; else shame will be too long. | author = | work = Henry V. | place = Act IV. Sc. 5. L. 23. | note = | topic = Life | page = 452 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The sands are number'd that make up my life; Here must I stay, and here my life must end. Henry VI. Pt. III. Act I. Sc. 4. L. 25 | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Life | page = 452419 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life; but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself. Julius Caesar. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 93. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Life | page = 452419 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = This day I breathed first: tune is come round, And where I did begin there shall I end; My life is run his compass. Julius Caesar. Act V. Sc. 3. L. 23. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Life | page = 452 }}