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> [There is no death. The thing that we call death Is but another, sadder name for life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-henry-stoddard/there-is-no-death-the-thing-that-we-call-death-is-but-another-sadder/)

[Richard Henry Stoddard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-henry-stoddard/)

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## More by Richard Henry Stoddard

> [There is no death. The thing that we call death Is but another, sadder name for life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-henry-stoddard/there-is-no-death-the-thing-that-we-call-death-is-but-another-sadder/)

[Richard Henry Stoddard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-henry-stoddard/)

> [Joy may be a miser, But Sorrow's purse is free.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-henry-stoddard/joy-may-be-a-miser-but-sorrow-s-purse-is-free/)

[Richard Henry Stoddard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-henry-stoddard/)

> [A voice of greeting from the wind was sent; The mists enfolded me with soft white arms; The birds did sing to lap me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-henry-stoddard/a-voice-of-greeting-from-the-wind-was-sent-the-mists-enfolded-me-with/)

[Richard Henry Stoddard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-henry-stoddard/)

> [There is no hope the future will but turn the old sand in the falling glass of time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-henry-stoddard/there-is-no-hope-the-future-will-but-turn-the-old-sand-in-the-falling/)

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> [Once, when the days were ages, And the old Earth was young, The high gods and the sages From Nature's golden pages Her open…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-henry-stoddard/once-when-the-days-were-ages-and-the-old-earth-was-young-the-high/)

[Richard Henry Stoddard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-henry-stoddard/)

> [There is no death-the thing that we call death Is but another, sadder name for life, Which is itself an insufficient name, Faint recognition…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-henry-stoddard/there-is-no-death-the-thing-that-we-call-death-is-but-another-sadder-2/)

[Richard Henry Stoddard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-henry-stoddard/)

> [Day is the Child of Time, And Day must cease to be: But Night is without a sire, And cannot expire, One with Eternity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-henry-stoddard/day-is-the-child-of-time-and-day-must-cease-to-be-but-night-is/)

[Richard Henry Stoddard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-henry-stoddard/)

> [There are gains for all our losses, There are balms for all our pain: But when youth, the dream, departs, It takes something from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-henry-stoddard/there-are-gains-for-all-our-losses-there-are-balms-for-all-our-pain/)

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> [Children are the keys of Paradise.They alone are good and wise, Because their thoughts, their very lives are prayer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-henry-stoddard/children-are-the-keys-of-paradise-they-alone-are-good-and-wise/)

[Richard Henry Stoddard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-henry-stoddard/)

> [Silence is the speech of love, The music of the spheres above.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-henry-stoddard/silence-is-the-speech-of-love-the-music-of-the-spheres-above/)

[Richard Henry Stoddard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-henry-stoddard/)

> [With no companion but the constant Muse, Who sought me when I needed her ah, when Did I not need her, solitary else?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-henry-stoddard/with-no-companion-but-the-constant-muse-who-sought-me-when-i-needed/)

[Richard Henry Stoddard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-henry-stoddard/)

> [We have two lives about us,Two worlds in which we dwell,Within us and without us,Alternate Heaven and Hell:-Without, the somber Real,Within, our hearts of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-henry-stoddard/we-have-two-lives-about-us-two-worlds-in-which-we-dwell-within-us-and/)

[Richard Henry Stoddard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-henry-stoddard/)

> [Pale in her fading bowers the Summer stands, Like a new Niobe with claspèd hands, Silent above the flowers, her children lost, Slain by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-henry-stoddard/pale-in-her-fading-bowers-the-summer-stands-like-a-new-niobe-with/)

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> [Heaven is not gone, but we are blind with tears, Groping our way along the downward slope of Years!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-henry-stoddard/heaven-is-not-gone-but-we-are-blind-with-tears-groping-our-way-along/)

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> [Day and night my thoughts incline To the blandishments of wine, Jars were made to drain, I think; Wine, I know, was made to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-henry-stoddard/day-and-night-my-thoughts-incline-to-the-blandishments-of-wine-jars/)

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