We can make our lives sublime.
—Psalm of Life. Longfellow.
Why not emphasize “we”?
... perchance to dream; ay, there’s the rub!
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.
—Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 1.
“What” is equivalent to what horrible or awful.
Cassius. I may do that I shall be sorry for.
Brutus. You have done that you should be sorry for.
—Julius Caesar, Act iv., Sc. 3.