Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.
Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.
Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope.
The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life.
Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not this gives us no concern - why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be To die is only to be as we were before we were born.
Death cancels everything but truth and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies.
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