Quote#Death
The friendship of high and sanctified spirits loses nothing by death…
Quote byRobert Hall · 1764–1831
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 254..
English (original)
The friendship of high and sanctified spirits loses nothing by death but its alloy; failings disappear, and the virtues of those whose faces we shall behold no more appear greater and more sacred when beheld through the shades of the sepulchre.
— Robert Hall
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