'T is immortality to die aspiring,
As if a man were taken quick to heaven.


Conspiracy of Charles, Duke of Byron, Act i, scene 1; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).


'T is immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven.

'T is immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven.

'T is immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven.

'T is immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven.