“Let others hail the rising sun:
I bow to that whose course is run.”

—  David Garrick

On the Death of Mr. Pelham. Compare: "Pompey bade Sylla recollect that more worshipped the rising than the setting sun", Plutarch, Life of Pompey.

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English actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer 1717–1779

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