Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that death is a natural part of life and can be seen as a peaceful sleep rather than something to fear.
In this quote, Francis Beaumont conveys the idea that death should not be feared, as it is merely a transition into a deep, restful state akin to sleep. By likening death to sleeping, the quote comforts those who may be apprehensive about the end of life, encouraging a perspective that views death as a serene release from the struggles of existence.
In practice
In a eulogy, one might cite this quote to highlight the comforting aspects of death.
If men wound you with injuries, meet them with patience; hasty words rankle the wound, soft language dresses it, forgiveness cures it, and oblivion takes away the scar. It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.
Woe to him whom this world charms from Gospel duty. Woe to him who seeks to pour oil upon the waters when God has brewed them into a gale. Woe to him who seeks to please rather than to appal. Woe to him whose good name is more to him than goodness. Woe to him who, in this world, courts not dishonor! Woe to him who would not be true, even though to be false were salvation. Yea, woe to him who, as the great Pilot Paul has it, while preaching to others is himself a castaway.
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.
The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result.
Memory is so corrupt that you remember only what you want to; if you want to forget about something, slowly but surely you do.
Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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