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 164 DEATH DEATH

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{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = To die would be an awfully big adventure. Barrie—Peter Pan. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Browning, Frohman, Rabelais) But whether on the scaffold high, Or in the battle's van, The fittest place where man can die Is where he dies for man. Michael J. Barry—The Place to Die. In The Dublin Nation. Sept. 28, 1844. Vol. II. P. 809. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 164 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Death hath so many doors to let out life. | author = Beaumont and Fletcher | work = The Custom of the Country. Act II. Sc. 2. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 164 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = We must all die! All leave ourselves, it matters not where, when, Nor how, so we die well; and can that man that does so Need lamentation for him? | author = Beaumont and Fletcher | work = Valentinian. Act IV. Sc.4. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 164 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = How shocking must thy summons be, O Death! To him that is at ease in his possessions: Who, counting on long years of pleasure here, Is quite unfurnish'd for that world to come! Blair—The Grave. L. 350. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 164 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Sure 'tis a serious thing to die! My soul! What a strange moment must it be, when, near Thy journey's end, thou hast the gulf in view! That awful gulf, no mortal e'er repass'd To tell what's doing on the other side. Blair—The Grave. L. 369. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 164 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 'Tis long since Death had the majority. Blabs—The Grave. L. 451. Please "The Great Majority" found in Plautus. Trinium. II. 214. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 15 | text = Beyond the shining and the shading I shall be soon. Beyond the hoping and the dreading I shall be soon. Love, rest and home— Lord! tarry not, but come. Horatio Bonar—Beyond the Smiling and the Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the resurrection. Book of Common Prayer. Burial of the Dead. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 164 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay. Book of Common Prayer. Burial of the Dead. Quoted from Job. XIV. 1. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 164 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = In the midst of life we are in death. Book of Common Prayer. Burial of the Dead. Media vita in morte sumus. From a Latin antiphon. Found in the choirbook of the monks of St. Gall. Said to have been composed by Notker ("The Stammerer