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What does it mean?
Life remains valuable as long as freedom, hope, charity, and intellectual liberty exist.
In plain terms
Life is good when freedom and hope remain.
What can you take from it?
Protect freedom and hope to keep life meaningful.

Where it applies

  • society building
  • community service
  • education

Putting it to work

  • cultivating hope
  • defending freedom

Questions to consider

  • What virtues sustain your view of life?

Another view

Life can be meaningful in private despite public loss.

More from Alfred Austin

  1. Is life worth living? Yes, so long As there is wrong to right, Wail of the weak against the strong, Or tyranny to fight;

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  2. He is dead already who doth not feel Life is worth living still.

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  3. Is life worth living? Yes, so long As Spring revives the year, And hails us with the cuckoo's song, To show that she is here;

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