Cowards [may] fear to die; but courage stout, Rather than live in snuff, will be put out.
Walter Raleigh
Hope
A quote by Walter Raleigh
From the source
On the snuff of a candle the night before he died.—Raleigh's Remains, p. 258, ed. 1661.
Recorded in John Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, 1905 printing.