“He taught them how to live and how to die.”
In Memory of the Rev. Mr. Moore, line 21.
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William Somervile 9
English poet 1675–1742Related quotes
“My patients taught me not how to die, but how to live.”
“There taught us how to live; and (oh! too high
The price for knowledge) taught us how to die.”
On the Death of Mr. Addison (1721), line 81. Compare: "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; "Teach him how to live, And, oh still harder lesson! how to die", Beilby Porteus, Death, line 316; "He taught them how to live and how to die", Somerville, In Memory of the Rev. Mr. Moore.
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.
“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).
“The end of Religion is not to teach us how to die, but how to live….”
Source: Agnes Grey
“Thy thoughts to nobler meditations give,
And study how to die, not how to live.”
Meditations on Death, Stanza 1; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 504.