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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
— Samuel Johnson
Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.
— Samuel Johnson
One could construe the life of man as a great discourse in which the various people represent different parts of speech (the same might apply to states).
— Soren Kierkegaard
Whom man kills, him God restoreth to life.
— Victor Hugo
A man's life is always dealing with permanence, that is the most dangerous kind of irresponsibility is to think of your doings as temporary.
— Wendell Berry
any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man
— William Faulkner
Fill the cup, and fill the can: Have a rouse before the morn: Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Life is a task to be done. It is a fine thing to say defunctus est; it means that the man has done his task.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question.
— Ayn Rand
When God becomes a Man and lives as a creature among His own creatures in Palestine, then indeed His life is one of supreme self-sacrifice and leads to Calvary.
— CS Lewis
To rise at six, to dine at ten, To sup at six, to sleep at ten, Makes a man live for ten times ten.
— Victor Hugo
To be awake is to be completely alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
— Henry David Thoreau