Thy thoughts to nobler meditations give,
And study how to die, not how to live.


Meditations on Death, Stanza 1; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 504.


Thy thoughts to nobler meditations give, And study how to die, not how to live.

Thy thoughts to nobler meditations give, And study how to die, not how to live.

Thy thoughts to nobler meditations give, And study how to die, not how to live.

Thy thoughts to nobler meditations give, And study how to die, not how to live.