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What life have you if you have not life together?
There is no life that is not in community,
(T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888-1965), U.S.-born—British poet, critic. "Choruses from 'The Rock'....")
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Mine honor is my life, both grow in one,
Take honor from me, and my life is done.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Mowbray, in Richard II, act 1, sc. 1, l. 182-3.
"Honor" is a complex word; Mowbray seems to mean by it both fame or reputation, and moral probity.)
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A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
(John Milton (1608-1674), British poet. repr. In Complete Prose Works of Milton, ed. Ernest Sirluck (1959). Areopagitica: a Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England (1644).)
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Life every man holds dear, but the dear man
Holds honor far more precious-dear than life.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Hector, in Troilus and Cressida, act 5, sc. 3, l. 25-8.
Refusing to be dissuaded from fighting by pressure from his wife Andromache and Cassandra; "dear man" = man of worth, noble man.)
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One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
(Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, author. Rose-Leaf and Apple-Leaf: Envoi.)
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Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.
(Angela Carter (1940-1992), British postmodern novelist. repr. Penguin. Wise Children, ch. 4, Chatto & Windus (1991).)
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In comedy, reconcilement with life comes at the point when to the tragic sense only an inalienable difference or dissension with life appears.
(Constance Rourke (1885-1941), U.S. author. American Humor, ch. 8 (1931).)
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A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
(George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Anglo-Irish playwright, critic. "The Technical Problem," preface, The Doctor's Dilemma (1911).)
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