Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression: we must always purpose to do more or better than in time past. Johnson.
Life, upon the whole, is much more pleasurable than painful, otherwise we should not feel pain so impatiently when it comes. Leigh Hunt.
Life was intended to be so adjusted that the body should be the servant of the soul, and always subordinate to the soul. J. G. Holland.
Life was never a May-game for men; not play 35 at all, but hard work, that makes the sinews sore and the heart sore. Carlyle.
Life was spread as a banquet for pure, noble, unperverted natures, and may be such to them, ought to be such to them. W. R. Greg.
Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Emerson.
Life, whether in this world or any other, is the sum of our attainment, our experience, our character. In what other world shall we be more surely than we are here? Chapin.
Life with all it yields of joy and woe, / And hope and fear, / Is just our chance o' the prize of learning love, / How love might be, hath been indeed, and is. Browning.
Life without a freend is death wi' a witness. 40 Sc. Pr.
Life without laughing is a dreary blank. Thackeray.