Remember: it is not given to man to take his goods with him.
No one goes away and then comes back.

The Song of the Harper

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Topic

Can't take it with you The afterlife Death

Source

The Song of the Harper

Genre

Wisdom literature

Language

Egyptian/Hieroglypics

Time

2600 BC 2600s BC 27th century BC

Era

Egyptian Middle Kingdom

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Anonymous. Tomb of King Intef, n.d., stanza 10.

Current Citation

Anonymous. "Song of the Harper." The Literature of Ancient Egypt, edited and introduction by William Kelly Simpson, translated by Robert T. K. Ritner, William Kelly Simpson, Vincent A. Tobin and Edward F. Wente, Jr. Yale University Press, 2003, stanza 10.

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Another quote about Death

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Dylan Thomas

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Topic
Old age Death

Author

Dylan Thomas
Source
Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1951 1950s 20th century
Authentication Score 0
Citation

Thomas, Dylan. "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night." Botteghe Oscure, 1951.