Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

by Unknown

I see a hand you cannot see,

Which beckons me away.

Colin and Lucy.

Footnotes

[313:2] He who should teach men to die, would at the same time teach them to live.—Montaigne: Essays, book i. chap. ix.

I have taught you, my dear flock, for above thirty years how to live; and I will show you in a very short time how to die.—Sandys: Anglorum Speculum, p. 903.

Teach him how to live,

And, oh still harder lesson! how to die.

Porteus: Death, line 316.

He taught them how to live and how to die.—Somerville: In Memory of the Rev. Mr. Moore.