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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:2662
AUTHOR:John Milton (1608–1674)
QUOTATION:Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv’st
Live well: how long or short permit to heaven. 1
ATTRIBUTION:Paradise Lost. Book xi. Line 553.
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
 
Note 1.
Summum nec metuas diem, nec optes (Neither fear nor wish for your last day).—Martial: lib. x. epigram 47, line 13. [back]
 

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