'Tis true; 'tis certain; man though dead retains
Part of himself; the immortal mind remains.

'Tis true; 'tis certain; man though dead retains
Part of himself; the immortal mind remains.

It must be so--Plato, thou reasonest well!--
Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,
This longing read more

It must be so--Plato, thou reasonest well!--
Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,
This longing after immortality?
Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror,
O falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul
Back on herself, and startles at destruction?
'Tis the divinity that stirs within us;
'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter,
And intimates eternity to man.

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.

Immortality is the glorious discovery of Christianity.

Immortality is the glorious discovery of Christianity.

'Tis immortality to die aspiring,
As if a man were taken quick to heaven.

'Tis immortality to die aspiring,
As if a man were taken quick to heaven.

For Love is Immortality.

For Love is Immortality.

For I never have seen, and never shall see, that the cessation of
the evidence of existence is necessarily read more

For I never have seen, and never shall see, that the cessation of
the evidence of existence is necessarily evidence of the
cessation of existence.

Immortality is the genius to move others long after you yourself have stopped moving.

Immortality is the genius to move others long after you yourself have stopped moving.

I have been dying for twenty years, now I am going to live.

I have been dying for twenty years, now I am going to live.