How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue! Who would not be that youth? What pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country!

How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!<br />
Who would not be that youth? What pity is it<br />
That we can die but once to serve our country!

Joseph Addison

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796 Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.
812 Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
776 I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
802 Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.
783 How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue! Who would not be that youth? What pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country!

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