“He was teaching me how to die, just as he'd taught me how to live.”
Abraham Verghese book Cutting for Stone
Source: Cutting for Stone
“In teaching me the way to live
It taught me how to die.”
My Mother's Bible, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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It taught me how to die." by George Pope Morris?
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Teach me to die…”
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Context: There patient show'd us the wise course to steer,
A candid censor, and a friend severe;
There taught us how to live; and (oh! too high
The price for knowledge) taught us how to die.
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Source: Death: A Poetical Essay (1759), Line 316. Compare: "There taught us how to live; and (oh, too high
The price for knowledge!) taught us how to die", Thomas Tickell, On the Death of Mr. Addison (1721), line 81.; "He who should teach men to die, would at the same time teach them to live", Michel de Montaigne, Essay, book i. chap. ix.; "I have taught you, my dear flock, for above thirty years how to live; and I will show you in a very short time how to die", Sandys, Anglorum Speculum, p. 903.
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If 6 Was 9
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Source: Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love
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