“Man is in his short sojourn on earth equal to God in His eternity.”

The Battlefield http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16341/16341-h/16341-h.htm#page222 (1839), st. 9

Source: Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857), p. 324

Source: Life Thoughts (1858), p. 25

As quoted in The World's Religions (1976) by Sir James Norman Dalrymple Anderson, p. 61

As quoted in Reader's Digest (July 1972)

Horatius, st. 26 & 27; this quote is often truncated to read:
Lays of Ancient Rome (1842)
Context: Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the Gate:
"To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers,
And the temples of his gods, And for the tender mother
Who dandled him to rest,
And for the wife who nurses
His baby at her breast,
And for the holy maidens
Who feed the eternal flame,
To save them from false Sextus
That wrought the deed of shame?"

Lecture XXX, Atheism alone a Positive View <br class="br"> Lectures on the Essence of Religion http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/feuerbach/works/lectures/index.htm (1851)

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 46.