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If we were to live here always, with no other care than how to feed, clothe, and house ourselves, life would be a very sorry business. It is immeasurably heightened by the solemnity of death.

If we were to live here always, with no other care than how to feed, clothe, and house ourselves, life would be a very sorry business. It is immeasurably heightened by the solemnity of death.

Alexander Smith
Death, Sorry, House
Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.55

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

Alexander Smith
Death, Nature, Ugly
Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.51

To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud.

Alexander Smith
Death, Men, Proud
Dreamthorp Ch. II (1863)

Death, which we are accustomed to consider an evil, really acts for us the friendliest part, and takes away the commonplace of existence.

Alexander Smith
Death, Life Death, Commonplace
"Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country".

If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.

Alexander Smith
Death, Men, Race
Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.58

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