Reginald Heber (1783–1826) English clergyman
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 213.
“Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.”
— James Joyce, book The Dead
Dubliners (1914)
Variant: One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
Source: "The Dead"
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