All is concentred in a life intense,
Where not a beam, nor air, nor leaf is lost,
But hath a part of being.
Childe Harold, Canto III. LORD BYRON.
Life for delays and doubts no time does give,
None ever yet made haste enough to live.
Martial, Liber II. A. COWLEY.
Learn to live well, that thou may'st die so too;
To live and die is all we have to do.
Of Prudence. SIR J. DENHAM.
"Live, while you live," the epicure would say,
"And seize the pleasures of the present day;"
"Live while you live," the sacred preacher cries,
"And give to God each moment as it flies."
"Lord, in my views let both united be;
I live in pleasure, when I live to Thee."
"Dum vivimus vivamus." (Motto of his Family Arms.)
P. DODDRIDGE.
A man's ingress into the world is naked and bare,
His progress through the world is trouble and care;
And lastly, his egress out of the world, is nobody knows where.
If we do well here, we shall do well there;
I can tell you no more if I preach a whole year.
Eccentricities, Vol. I. J. EDWIN.
A little rule, a little sway,
A sunbeam in a winter's day,
Is all the proud and mighty have
Between the cradle and the grave.
Grongar Hill. J. DYER.
So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop
Into thy mother's lap
Paradise Lost, Bk. XI. MILTON.
Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!
To all the sensual world proclaim,
One crowded hour of glorious life
Is worth an age without a name.
Old Mortality: Chapter Head. SIR W. SCOTT.
Let us (since life can little more supply
Than just to look about us, and to die)
Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man;
A mighty maze! but not without a plan.
Essay on Man, Epistle I. A. POPE.
The world's a theatre, the earth a stage
Which God and nature do with actors fill.
Apology for Actors. T. HEYWOOD.