Read the excerpt from "to live." learning how to live without a textbook without a teacher to correct grammar to live to learn myself to live to know myself to live to be somebody who's learned how to live the speaker most likely repeats the phrase "to live" to show

This excerpt uses a literary device of repetition - rhetorical device-more specifically it uses Anaphora.

Anaphora is the use of the same words at the beginning of successive sentences.

It is mainly used to persuade and convince people besides having the capacity to generate all sort of feelings depending on the phrase that is being repeated.

in this text, paine use the word “ye” several times in order to  capture  the  attention of the colonists who   haven't understand the   importance and urgency of his cause. the word "ye" that is the plural of   "thou" is used to call the colonists attention and make the fight for the cause.

faithful servants eumaeus and philaetius:

his ragged vest then drawn aside disclosed the sign conspicuous, and the scar exposed: eager they view'd, with joy they stood amazed with tearful eyes o'er all their master gazed:

these servants know ulysses by the scar he got when he was a child - so when he showed them the mark, they immediately knew this is truly their master and they hugged him, finally starting to believe his words.