"To die is landing on some silent shore Where billows never break, nor tempests roar; Ere well we feel the friendly stroke, 'tis o'er."
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The Dispensary, Canto III, line 225; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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Samuel Garth
Sir Samuel Garth (1661β1719) was an English physician and poet.
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