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• O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content!
  whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die....
• To live in hearts we leave behind Is not to die.
  -- Thomas Campbell (1777-1844) -- Hallowed Ground...
• For 'tis better to die poor than to live in shame and ignominy.
  No, it isn't. -- Kate and her father : Bell...
• Tis better to live than to conceive...
• Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
  Henry David Thoreau...
• 'Tis the mind that makes the body rich. -- William Shakespeare
• Abide with me from morn till eve, For without Thee I cannot live
  Abide with me when night is nigh, For without Thee I dare not die....
• I wish I REALLY knew what I was doing. [SIGH]
• And hie him home, at evening's close, To sweet repast and calm repose.
  -- Thomas Gray (1716-1771) -- Ode on the Pleasure arising from Vicissitude, Line 87...