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01c. 1746 AD

Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new.

Samuel Johnson / quote

02c. 1746 AD

Catch, then, oh catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies! Life 's a short summer, man a flower; He dies—alas! how soon he dies!

Samuel Johnson / quote

03c. 1746 AD

Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help?

Samuel Johnson / quote

04c. 1746 AD

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

Samuel Johnson / quote

05c. 1746 AD

When a man is tired of London he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Samuel Johnson / quote

06c. 1738 AD

Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.

William Shenstone / quote

07c. 1743 AD

He pass'd the flaming bounds of place and time: The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze, He saw; but blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night.

Thomas Gray / quote

08c. 1743 AD

Hands that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre.

Thomas Gray / quote

09c. 1743 AD

Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.

Thomas Gray / quote

10c. 1738 AD

Each lonely scene shall thee restore; For thee the tear be duly shed, Belov'd till life can charm no more, And mourn'd till Pity's self be dead.

William Collins / quote

11c. 1748 AD

Born in a cellar, and living in a garret.

Samuel Foote / quote

12c. 1751 AD

By the living jingo, she was all of a muck of sweat.

Oliver Goldsmith / quote

13c. 1751 AD

They would talk of nothing but high life, and high-lived company, with other fashionable topics, such as pictures, taste, Shakespeare, and the musical glasses.

Oliver Goldsmith / quote

14c. 1763 AD

It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in,—glittering like the morning star full of life and splendour and joy. . . . Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men,—in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded.

Edmund Burke / quote

15c. 1763 AD

The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone.

Edmund Burke / quote

16c. 1765 AD

Variety 's the very spice of life.

William Cowper / quote

17c. 1765 AD

What is it but a map of busy life, Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns?

William Cowper / quote

18c. 1765 AD

Some must be great. Great offices will have Great talents. And God gives to every man The virtue, temper, understanding, taste, That lifts him into life, and lets him fall Just in the niche he was ordain'd to fill.

William Cowper / quote

19c. 1765 AD

Oh that those lips had language! Life has pass'd With me but roughly since I heard thee last.

William Cowper / quote

20c. 1769 AD

In sober state, Through the sequestered vale of rural life, The venerable patriarch guileless held The tenor of his way.

Beilby Porteus / quote

21c. 1767 AD

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

Patrick Henry / quote

22c. 1780 AD

The tree of deepest root is found Least willing still to quit the ground: 'T was therefore said by ancient sages, That love of life increased with years So much, that in our latter stages, When pain grows sharp and sickness rages, The greatest love of life appears.

Mrs. Thrale / quote

23c. 1784 AD

Life! we 've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather; 'T is hard to part when friends are dear,— Perhaps 't will cost a sigh, a tear; Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time; Say not "Good night," but in some brighter clime Bid me "Good morning."

Mrs. Barbauld / quote

24c. 1784 AD

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

Thomas Jefferson / quote