“My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.”
William Golding (1911–1993) British novelist, poet, playwright and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate
“Fear death?—to feel the fog in my throat,
The mist in my face.
.......
No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers,
The heroes of old;
Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears”
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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