"Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death"
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"The body is only a garment. How many times you have changed your clothing in this life, yet because of this you would not say that you have changed. Similarly, when you give up this bodily dress at death you do not change. You are just the same, an immortal soul, a child of God."
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"Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living."
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"All stories, if continued far enough, end in death."
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"For whose sake did you live, for whose sake did you die? Forgive me, baby, for what I didn't do."
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"When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss. I have never known a man to think of himself when dying. Never."
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"We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary."
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"O joy of suffering! To struggle against great odds! to meet enemies undaunted! To be entirely alone with them! to find how much one can stand! To look strife, torture, prison, popular odium, death, face to face! To mount the scaffold! to advance to the muzzles of guns with perfect nonchalance! To be indeed a God!"
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"Golden lads and girls all must as chimney sweepers come to dust."
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"My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley."
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"Death is a release from and an end of all pains."
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"I will garden on the double run, my rhythm obvious in the ringing rakes, and trust in fate to keep me poor and kind and work until my heart is short, then go out slowly with a feeble grin, my fingers flexing but my eyes gone gray from cramps and the lack of oxygen."
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"To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent."
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"I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming."
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"The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on."
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"If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it."
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"Death doesn't frighten me."
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"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known."
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"Reflect on death as in Jesus Christ, not as without Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ it is dreadful, it is alarming, it is the terror of nature. In Jesus Christ it is fair and lovely, it is good and holy, it is the joy of saints."
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"All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape."
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