Life every man holds dear; but the brave 30 man / Holds honour far more precious dear than life. Troil. and Cress., v. 3.
Life everywhere will swallow a man, unless he rise and try vigorously to swallow it. Carlyle.
Life expresses. A statue has no tongue, and needs none. (?)
Life, full life, / Full-flowered, full-fruited, reared from homely earth, / Rooted in duty, ... this is the prize / I hold most dear, more precious than the fruit / Of knowledge or of love. Lewis Morris.
Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion still improves, by observing that the most swift are ever the least manageable, the most apt to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones. Goldsmith.
Life has no memory. Emerson. 35
Life has no pleasure nobler than that of friendship. Johnson.
Life, however short, is made shorter by waste of time; and its progress towards happiness, though naturally slow, is made still slower by unnecessary labour. Johnson.
Life I leave, as I would leave an inn, rather than a home; nature having given it us more as a sort of hostelry to stop at, than as an abiding dwelling-place. Cato in Cicero.
Life in itself is neither good nor evil, but the scene of good or evil, as you make it; and if you have lived one day, you have lived all days. Montaigne.