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On entre, on crie,
Et c'est la vie!

On bâille, on sort,

Et c'est la mort!

We come and we cry, and that is life; we yawn and we depart, and that is death! AUSONE DE CHANCEL-Lines in an Album. (1836) (See also DE PIIS, SAXE)

However, while I crawl upon this planet I think myself obliged to do what good I can in my narrow domestic sphere, to all my fellowcreatures, and to wish them all the good I cannot do.

CHESTERFIELD-In a letter to the Bishop of Waterford, Jan. 22, 1780.

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(See First Quotation)

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Still ending, and beginning still. COWPER-Task. Bk. III. L. 627.

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What is it but a map of busy life,
Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns?
COWPER-Task. Bk. IV. L. 55.

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Let's learn to live, for we must die alone. CRABBE-Borough. Letter X.

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Shall he who soars, inspired by loftier views,
Life's little cares and little pains refuse?
Shall he not rather feel a double share
Of mortal woe, when doubly arm'd to bear?
CRABBE-Library.

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Life's bloomy flush was lost.

CRABBE-Parish Register. Pt. II. 453. (See also GOLDSMITH)

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Life is not measured by the time we live. CRABBE-Village. Bk. II.

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Chaque instant de la vie est un pas vers la mort.

Every moment of life is a step toward the grave.

CRÉBILLON-Tite et Bérénice. I. 5.

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Non è necessario

Vivere, si scolpire olte quel termine

Nostro nome: questo è necessario.

It is not necessary to live,

But to carve our names beyond that point,
This is necessary.

GABRIELE d'ANNUNZIO-Canzone di Umberto
Cagni.

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Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita
Mi ritrovai per una selva oscura,

Che la diritta via era smarrita.

In the midway of this our mortal life,
I found me in a gloomy wood, astray,
Gone from the path direct.
DANTE-Inferno. I.

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Questo misero modo

Tengon l'anime triste di coloro

Che visser senza infamia e senza lodo.

This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise.

DANTE-Inferno. III. 36.

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There are two distinct classes of people in the world; those that feel that they themselves are in a body; and those that feel that they themselves are a body, with something working it. I feel like the contents of a bottle, and am curious to know what will happen when the bottle is uncorked. Perhaps I shall be mousseux-who knows? Now I know that many people feel like a strong moving engine, selfstoking, and often so anxious to keep the fire going that they put too much fuel on, and it has to be raked out and have the bars cleared. WILLIAM DE MORGAN Joseph Vance. Ch. XL.

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Learn to live well, that thou may'st die so too; To live and die is all we have to do.

SIR JOHN DENHAM-Of Prudence. L. 93.

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Life's an Inn, my house will shew it;-
I thought so once, but now I know it.
Epitaphs printed by MR. FAIRLEY. Epitaph-
iana. (Ed. 1875) On an Innkeeper at Eton.
The lines that follow are like those of
Quarles.

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(See also GAY under EPITAPHS)

This world's a city full of crooked streets,
Death's the market-place where all men meet;
If life were merchandise that men should buy,
The rich would always live, the poor might die.
Epitaph to JOHN GADSDEN, died 1739, in Stoke
Goldington, England. See E. R. SUFFLING
-Epitaphia. P. 401. On P. 405 is a
Scotch version of 1689. Same idea in GAY.
The Messenger of Mortality, in Ancient
Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry.
A suggestion from CHAUCER'S Knight's Tale.
L. 2487. SHAKESPEARE and FLETCHER.
Two Noble Kinsmen. Act I. Sc. 5. L. 15.
WALLER-Divine Poems.

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Nulli desperandum, quam diu spirat.

No one is to be despaired of as long as he breathes. (While there is life there is hope.) ERASMUS Colloq. Epicureus.

(See also CICERO under HOPE)

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