Synonyms for life-of-man
life-of-man

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1. American spikenard, petty morel, life-of-man, Aralia racemosanoun

   unarmed woody rhizomatous perennial plant distinguished from wild sarsaparilla by more aromatic roots and panicled umbels; southeastern North America to Mexico

   Synonyms:
   petty morel

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1. Ecclesiastes:

   Give not over thy soul to sorrow and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.

2. Feltham:

   The life of man is the incessant walk of nature, wherein every moment is a step towards death. Even our growing to perfection is a progress to decay. Every thought we have is a sand running out of the glass of life.

3. Charles Caleb Colton:

   Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man.

4. Thomas Hobbes, "The Leviathan":

   The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

5. Plutarch:

   The whole life of man is but a point of time let us enjoy it.