Chapter LESSON to LIFE of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

Cowper.—Hope, Line 127.

To live in hearts we leave behind,
Is not to die.

Campbell.—Hallowed Ground, Verse 6.

Life is a warfare.

Seneca.—Of a Happy Life, Chap. VIII.

Life is a navigation.

Seneca.—Of a Happy Life, Chap. XXI.

Life’s a tragedy.

Sir Walter Raleigh.

Life is a jest, and all things show it:
I thought so once, but now I know it.

Gay.—“My Own Epitaph.”

Life is but a day at most.

Burns.—Friars’ Carse Hermitage.

Longest life is but a day.

Wordsworth.—Rob Roy’s Grave.

Our whole life is like a play.

Ben Jonson.—Discoveries.

LIFE.—Life is a journey:—on we go
Thro’ many a scene of joy and woe.

George Combe.—Dr. Syntax, Tour to the Lakes, Chap. XII.

Life, sir! no prince fares like him; he breaks his fast with Aristotle, dines with Tully, drinks at Helicon, sups with Seneca; then walks a turn or two in the milky-way, and after six hours’ conference with the stars, sleeps with old Erra Pater.

Colley Cibber.—Love Makes a Man, Act I. Scene I.

Reason thus with life:

If I lose thee, I do lose a thing
That none but fools would keep: a breath thou art,
(Servile to all the skiey influences,)
That dost this habitation, where thou keepest,
Hourly afflict.

Shakespeare.—Measure for Measure, Act III. Scene 1. (Duke to Claudio.)

When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat;
Yet, fool’d with hope, men favour the deceit;
—None would live past years again,
Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain.

Dryden.—Aurengzebe, Act IV. Scene 1.