“So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”
Source: Sonnets (1609), XVIII
Source: Shakespeare's Sonnets
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English playwright and poet 1564–1616Related quotes

Song lyrics, Cat People (Putting Out Fire) (1982)

“So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.”

Go Rin No Sho (1645), The Ground Book
Context: To master the virtue of the long sword is to govern the world and oneself, thus the long sword is the basis of strategy. The principle is "strategy by means of the long sword". If he attains the virtue of the long sword, one man can beat ten men. Just as one man can beat ten, so a hundred men can beat a thousand, and a thousand men can beat ten thousand. In my strategy, one man is the same as ten thousand, so this strategy is the complete warrior's craft.
The Way of the warrior does not include other Ways, such as Confucianism, Buddhism, certain traditions, artistic accomplishments and dancing. But even though these are not part of the Way, if you know the Way broadly you will see it in everything. Men must polish their particular Way.