“After the first death, there is no other.”
" A Refusal To Mourn The Death, By Fire, Of A Child In London http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Dylan_Thomas/1093", st. 4 (1946)
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Welsh poet and writer 1914–1953Related quotes
"The Mower," Humberside (Hull Literary Club magazine) (Autumn 1979) [12 June 1979]
The First Part, Chapter 11, p. 47.
Leviathan (1651)
Context: So that in the first place, I put for a general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and restless desire of Power after power, that ceaseth only in Death. And the cause of this is not always that a man hopes for a more intensive delight than he has already attained to, or that he cannot be content with a moderate power: but because he cannot assure the power and means to live well, which he hath present, without the acquisition of more.
“It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.”
Source: All the Pretty Horses
The Clerk's Vision (1949)
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
A Declaration of Independence (12 March 1964) http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=1148
Variant: We cannot think of uniting with others, until after we have first united among ourselves. We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
Context: There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity. There can be no workers' solidarity until there is first some racial solidarity. We cannot think of uniting with others, until after we have first united among ourselves. We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves. One can't unite bananas with scattered leaves.
“Either no feeling remains to the soul after death, or death itself matters not at all.”
Aut nihil est sensus animis a morte relictum
aut mors ipsa nihil.
Book III, line 39 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
