Famous Quotes | Then with no fiery throbbing...

Then with no fiery throbbing pain,
No cold gradations of decay,
Death broke at once the vital chain,
And freed his soul the nearest way. - Samuel Johnson
Attribution: Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), British writer. On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet, a Practiser in Physic (l. 33–36). . . The Complete English Poems [Samuel Johnson]. J. D. Fleeman, ed. (1971) Penguin Books.

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