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

Emblems. Book iv. Emblem 2, Ep. 2.

It is the lot of man but once to die.

Emblems. Book v. Emblem 7.

[203:4] Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.—Young: Night Thoughts, night v. line 1011.

[204:1] To die is a debt we must all of us discharge.—Euripides: Alcestis, line 418.

[204:2] The longest way round is the shortest way home.—Bohn: Foreign Proverbs (Italian).

To write a verse or two is all the praise