“Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.”

—  Joseph Hall

Epistles, Decade III, epistle 2. Compare: "And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb./Our birth is nothing but our death begun", Edward Young, Night Thoughts, night v., line 718.

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