It must be so--Plato, thou reasonest well!--
Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,
This longing read more

It must be so--Plato, thou reasonest well!--
Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,
This longing after immortality?
Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror,
O falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul
Back on herself, and startles at destruction?
'Tis the divinity that stirs within us;
'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter,
And intimates eternity to man.

Immortality - a fate worse than death.

Immortality - a fate worse than death.

Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.

Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.

Thus God's children are immorall whiles their
Father hath anything for them to do on earth.

Thus God's children are immorall whiles their
Father hath anything for them to do on earth.

We feel and know that we are eternal.

We feel and know that we are eternal.

Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of read more

Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality.

There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever
hath no beginning may be confident of no end.

There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever
hath no beginning may be confident of no end.

No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of
immortality.
[Lat., Nemo unquam sine read more

No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of
immortality.
[Lat., Nemo unquam sine magna spe immortalitatatis se pro patria
offerret ad mortem.]

The first step to eternal life, is you have to die.

The first step to eternal life, is you have to die.