When, when, shall time give place to eternity?
"If there be things which trouble thee thou canst put them away, inasmuch as they have their being but in thine own notion concerning them.

Consider what death is, and how, if one does but detach from it the appearances, the notions, that hang about it, resting the eye upon it as in itself it really is, it must be thought of but as an effect of nature, and that man but a child whom an effect of nature shall affright.

Nay! not function and effect of nature, only; but a thing profitable also to herself.
"To cease from action--the ending of thine effort to think and do: there is no evil in that.

Turn thy thought to the ages of man's life, boyhood, youth, maturity, old age: the change in every one of these also is a dying, but evil nowhere.

Thou climbedst into the ship, thou hast made thy voyage and touched the shore.