Death as a blessing

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Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.

Mark Twain

Pudd'nhead Wilson

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Topic

Death as a blessing Death Adam Original sin

Author

Mark Twain

Source

Pudd'nhead Wilson

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Misdirection

Language

English

Time

1894 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Twain, Mark. "Pudd'nhead Wilson." The Century Magazine, Nov. 1893-Oct. 1894.

Current Citation

Twain, Mark. "Pudd'nhead Wilson." Pudd'nHead Wilson and Other Tales, edited by R.D. Gooder. Oxford University Press, 2009.

He that dies pays all debts.

William Shakespeare

The Tempest

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Topic

Death as a blessing Death Debt

Speaker

Stephano

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

The Tempest

Medium

Play

Genre

Comedy (play)

Language

English

Time

1616 1610s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. "The Tempest." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 3, sc. 2.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "The Tempest." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 2.

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out and death's the other.

Tennessee Williams

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Topic

Alcohol as balm Death as a blessing The human condition

Speaker

Brick

Author

Tennessee Williams

Source

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Medium

Play

Genre

Drama (play) Drama Southern Gothic

Language

English

Time

1955 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Williams, Tennessee. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Directed by Elia Kazan. Performed by Barbara Bel Geddes and Burl Ives and Ben Gazzara. 24 Mar. 1955, Morosco Theatre, New York City, New York, USA, act 2.

Current Citation

Williams, Tennessee. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. New Directions, 2004, act 2.

Death is the only freedom a slave knows. That's why he's not afraid of it.

Spartacus

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Topic

Death as a blessing Death Slavery

Speaker

Spartacus

Actor

Kirk Douglas

Source

Spartacus

Medium

Film

Genre

Epic (film) Historical drama (film) Epic Historical drama

Language

English

Time

1960 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Spartacus. Directed by Stanley Kubrick, Bryna Productions, 1960.

Not to be born surpasses thought and speech.
The second best is to have seen the light
And then to go back quickly whence we came.

Sophocles

Oedipus at Colonus

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Topic

Being born Death as a blessing

Speaker

Chorus

Author

Sophocles

Source

Oedipus at Colonus

Medium

Play

Genre

Greek tragedy Tragedy (play)

Language

Greek

Time

406 BC 400s BC 5th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Sophocles. Οἰδίπους ἐπὶ Κολωνῷ [Oedipus at Colonus]. 401 BC, Festival of Dionysus, Athens, Greece.

Current Citation

Sophocles. "Oedipus at Colonus." The Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Odeipus at Colonus, translated by Robert Fagles. Penguin Classics, 2000.

O Death! the poor man's dearest friend,
The kindest and the best!

Robert Burns

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Topic

Death as a blessing Death The poor

Author

Robert Burns

Source

Man Was Made to Mourn

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1784 1780s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Burns, Robert. Man was made to Mourn: A Dirge. 1784, st. 11.

Current Citation

Burns, Robert. "Man Was Made to Mourn. A Dirge." Robert Burns: Selected Poems, edited Carol Mcguirk. Penguin Classics, 1994, I. 11.

Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized friend and benefactor of the erring, the forsaken, the old, and weary, and broken of heart, whose burdens be heavy upon them, and who would lie down and be at rest.

Mark Twain

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Topic

Death as a blessing Death

Author

Mark Twain

Source

On Adam (Speech) Speeches of Mark Twain

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1883 1880s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Twain, Mark. "On Adam." Royal Literary and Scientific Society Dinner. 23 May 1883, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Current Citation

Twain, Mark. "On Adam." Mark Twain Speaking. University of Iowa Press, 2006.

Pale death, the grand physician, cures all pain;
The dead rest well who lived for joys in vain.

John Clare

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Topic

Death as a blessing Death

Author

John Clare

Source

Child Harold

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1841 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Clare, John. Child Harold. c. 1840, I. 215.

Current Citation

Clare, John. "Child Harold." John Clare: Major Works, edited by Eric Robinson and David Powell. Oxford University Press, 2008, I. 215.

When life is so burdensome, death has become of man a sought-after refuge.

Herodotus

Histories

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Topic

Death as a blessing Over it

Speaker

Artabanus

Author

Herodotus

Source

Histories

Genre

Historical literature

Language

Greek

Time

430 BC 430s BC 5th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Herodotus. Histories. c. 430 BC, bk. 7.

Current Citation

Herodotus. The Histories, translated by Robin Waterfield. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 7.