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Outlive   /ˌaʊtlˈɪv/   Listen
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Outlive  v. t.  (past & past part. outlived; pres. part. outliving)  To live beyond, or longer than; to survive. "They live too long who happiness outlive."






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"Outlive" Quotes from Famous Books



... him in youth, and his health has improved as he has advanced in years. He may never be strong, but great physical strength is not essential to health. Thus the strong often perish and the weak survive. If both classes lived with equal care the strong would outlive and outwork ...
— Maintaining Health • R. L. Alsaker

... is the final ending? The issue, can we know? Will Christ outlive Mohammed? Will Kali's altar go? This is our faith tremendous,— Our wild hope, who shall scorn,— That in the name of Jesus The ...
— General William Booth enters into Heaven and other Poems • Vachel Lindsay

... Burns's Integrity, on the least motion of it, I will indignantly spurn the by-pact transaction, and from that moment commence entire stranger to you. Burns's character for generosity of sentiment and independence of mind, will, I trust long outlive any of his wants which the cold, unfeeling ore can supply; at least I will take care that such ...
— Robert Burns • Principal Shairp

... which it is less proper than to that of a judge. The deliberating and comparing faculties generally preserve their strength much beyond that period in men who survive it; and when, in addition to this circumstance, we consider how few there are who outlive the season of intellectual vigor, and how improbable it is that any considerable portion of the bench, whether more or less numerous, should be in such a situation at the same time, we shall be ready to conclude that limitations of this sort ...
— The Federalist Papers • Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison

... introduce the element of competition, while it would certainly stimulate the clever and industrious to more work, would also certainly tend to obscure and weaken the real motives for work in all, which ought to outlive, but do not always outlive, the age at which ...
— Three Addresses to Girls at School • James Maurice Wilson


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