Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven, -SIR W. JONES. I have worked for more than twelve hours a day for fifty years on an average. 35. DEATH. To every man upon this earth It is as natural to die as to be born. Death openeth the gate to good fame and extinguisheth envy. -BACON. Happiness and misery succeed each other, gladness is followed by sadness; vain. Whoever is born is destined to die, all wisdom being -SAMAL.* What's sprung from earth dissolves to earth again, And heaven-born things fly to their native seat. Some die to-day, and some to-morrow, some at day and some at night; Some die in the prime of youth, and some die old, some that die are men, and some are women; Fever is the cause in some cases, while some are suicides; The death of some is caused by luxurious living, some die of disease or snake-bite; In some cases, indigestion or hydrophobia is the cause, some perish in obstinate fight; One way or another, none can escape Death's sting, see and consider, says Sâmal. -SAMAL.* A Gujarâti poet. Nothing can we call our own but death. The three conquerors of the world are Fashion, Love, and Death. Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of death? -GRAY. Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust? Death's footsteps fall. Nor triple-bolted gate, In every place Nor brazen wall, can shut from man his fate. -ROBERT LYTTON. Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O death! -MRS. HEMANS. One may live as a conqueror, or a magistrate, or a king, but he must die as a man. every human being to his pure individuality. The oldest deaf and dumb asylum is the grave. Sport not with life, nor fear death. He that fears death, lives not. -PROVERB. Cowards die many times before their death; It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Will come, when it will come. -SHAKESPEARE. We need not fear to die when death Submit thy fate to Heaven's indulgent care, Since every man who lives is born to die, With equal mind what happens let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend, -DRYDEN. There is no man sorry for death itself, but only for the time of death; every one knowing that it is a bond never forfeited to God. If, then, we know the same to be certain and inevitable, we ought withal to take the time of his arrival in as good part as the knowledge. -SIR W. RALEIGH. Nothing would be less useful than to fill the mind with gloomy images of death, and to torment the present by apprehensions as to the future. Religion does not require nor countenance any such morbid anxiety; yet it is good also to sober the thoughts with the consciousness of life's frailty and death's certainty. It is good above all to live every day as we would wish to have done when we come to die. We need not keep the dread event before us, but we should do our work and duty as if we were ever waiting for it, and ready to encounter it. -JOHN TULLOCH. That which is born expires, what blossoms does fade; When celestial beings and fiends, gods, demi-gods Even god Indra and such others die in course of nature, much less can man hope to escape. -SAMAL.* There is no escaping the grasp of death, you may grieve at it or rejoice; What is the use of grieving for it then, let us rather bear it cheerfully. -DALPATRAM.† *A Gujarâti poet. + AGujarati poet. |