Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—D

Debt of Nature

To pay the debt of Nature. To die. Life is a loan, not a gift, and the debt is paid off by death.

“The slender debt to Nature's quickly paid.”

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Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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