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 388 IMMORTALITY IMMORTALITY

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Der Mensch ist ein nachahmendes Geschopf. Und wer der Vbrderste ist, fiihrt die Heerde. An imitative creature is man; whoever is foremost, leads the herd. Schiller—Wallenstein's Tod. III. 4. 9. IMMORTALITY | seealso = (See also {{sc|Death) , It must be so—Plato, thou reasonest well!— Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror. Of falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. | author = Addison | work = Cato. Act V. Sc. 1. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 388 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds. | author = Addison | work = Caio. Act V. Sc. 1. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 388 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = No, no! The energy of life may be Kept on after the grave, but not begun; And he who flagg'd not in the earthly strife, Prom strength to strength advancing;—only he His soul well-knit, and all his battles won, Mounts, and that hardly, to eternal life. Matthew Arnold—Sonnet. Immortality. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 388 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = On the cold cheek of Death smiles and roses are blending, And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb. James Beattie—The Hermit. St. 6. Last lines. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 388 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond; But is there anything Beyond? Rupert Brooke—Heaven. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 388 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident of no end. Sir Thomas Browne—Hydriotaphia. Ch. V. If I stoop Into a dark tremendous sea of cloud, It is but for a time; I press God's lamp Close to my breast; its splendor soon or late Will pierce the gloom ; I shall emerge one day. Robert Browninc!—Paracelsus. Last lines. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 388 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = I have been dying for twenty years, now I am going to live. Jas. Drummond Burns—His Last Words. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = A good man never dies. Calumachus—Epigrams. X. Immortality is the glorious discovery of Christianity. Wm. Ellery Changing—Immortality. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 388 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 'Tis immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven. Geo. Chapman—Byron's Conspiracy. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 254. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 388 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Nemo unquam sine magna spe immortalitatatis se pro patria offerret ad mortem. No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality. Cicero—Tuscvlanarum Disputatwnum. I. 15. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 15 | text = For I never have seen, and never shall see, that the cessation of the evidence of existence is necessarily evidence of the cessation of existence. William De Morgan—Joseph Vance. Ch. XL. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 388 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was; and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. Ecclesiastes. XII. 7. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 388 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Thus God's children are immortall whiles their Father hath anything for them to do on earth. Fuller—Church History. Bk. II. Century VIII. 18. On Bede's Death. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Livingston, Williams) | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 15 | text = Yet spirit immortal, the tomb cannot bind thee, But like thine own eagle that soars to the sun Thou springest from bondage and leavest behind thee A name which before thee no mortal hath won. Attributed to Lyman Heath—The Grave of 'Tis true; 'tis certain; man though dead retains Part of himself; the immortal mind remains. Homer—Iliad. Bk. XXIII. L. 122 | note = {{sc|Pope}}'s trans. Dignum laude virum Musa vetat mori; Coelo Musa beat. The muse does not allow the praise-deserving hero to die: she enthrones him in the heavens. Horace—Carmina. IV. 8. 28. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 388 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = But all lost things are in the angels' keeping, Love; No past is dead for us, but only sleeping; Love; The years of Heaven with all earth's little pain Make good, Together there we can begin again In babyhood. | author = Helen Hunt Jackson | work = At Last. St. 6. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 388 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = No, no, I'm sure, My restless spirit never could endure To brood so long upon one luxury, Unless it did, though fearfully, espy A hope beyond the shadow of a dream. Keats—Endymion. Bk. I. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 388 }}