“Unless you can muse in a crowd all day On the absent face that fixed you; Unless you can love, as the angels may, With the breadth of heaven betwixt you; Unless you can dream that his faith is fast, Through behoving and unbehoving; Unless you can die when the dream is past Oh, never call it loving!” MayDreamPastFacesDiesHeavenAngelCrowdsFixedMuseAbsentBreadth Book:Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Poems Source: Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Poems
“Some men make a womanish complaint that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask what time? Is it that of Nature? But she, indeed, has lent us life, as we do a sum of money, only no certain day is fixed for payment. What reason then to complain if she demands it at pleasure, since it was on this condition that you received it.” IfsMenReasonDeathCertainDiesAsksPleasureConditionsDemandComplainingFixedOur TimeMisfortunesComplaintsPayment Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Nature intends that, at fixed periods, men should succeed each other by the instrumentality of death. We shall never outwit Nature; we shall die as usual.” MenShouldDeathDiesPeriodsSucceedFixedUsual Author:Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle