name for life.
--STODDARD.

To die,--to sleep,--
No more;--and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to.
--SHAKESPEARE.

All that nature has prescribed must be good; and as death is natural
to us, it is absurdity to fear it. Fear loses its purpose when we are
sure it cannot preserve us, and we should draw resolution to meet it,
from the impossibility to escape it.--STEELE.

There is nothing certain in man's life but this, that he must lose
it.--OWEN MEREDITH.

Death robs the rich and relieves the poor.--J.L. BASFORD.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the
physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him
whom time cannot console.--COLTON.

Death, so called, is a thing that makes men weep,
And yet a third of life is pass'd in sleep.
--BYRON.

The finest day of life is that on which one quits it.--FREDERICK THE
GREAT.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn--
The waking from a weary night
Of fevers unto truth and light.
--JOAQUIN MILLER.

The hour conceal'd and so remote the fear,
Death still draws nearer, never seeming near.
--POPE.

All that lives must die,
Passing through nature to eternity.
--SHAKESPEARE.

Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.--RICHTER.

You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
--MARTIAL.

No man but knows that he must die; he knows that in whatever quarter
of the world he abides--whatever be his circumstances--however strong
his present hold of life--however unlike the prey of death he
looks--that it is his doom beyond reverse to die.--STEBBING.

It is by no means a fact that death is the worst of all evils; when it
comes, it is an alleviation to mortals who are worn out with
sufferings.--METASTASIO.

God giveth quietness at last.--WHITTIER.

Death hath ten thousand several doors
For men to take their exits.
--JOHN WEBSTER.

Death will have his day.--SHAKESPEARE.

Death comes but once.--BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.

It is not I who die, when I die, but my sin and misery.--GOTTHOLD.

Death is the crown of life.--YOUNG.

So live, that, when thy summons comes to join
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