“And hie him home, at evening's close,
To sweet repast and calm repose.”
Thomas Gray (1716–1771) English poet, historian
Source: Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=oopv (1754), Line 87
“Even of death Christianity has made a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan and the stoical repose of the Indian.”
— Ouida
"Has Christianity Failed?" http://books.google.com/books?id=C1cCAAAAIAAJ&q="even+of+death+Christianity+has+made+a+terror+which+was+unknown+to+the+gay+calmness+of+the+Pagan+and+the+stoical+repose+of+the+Indian"&pg=PA215#v=onepage, in the The North American Review (February 1891)
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