"No real estate is permanently valuable but the grave."
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"Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval - a thing which, to the general run of the human race, is more dreaded than wolves and death."
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"Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time."
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"Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me."
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"God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath."
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"It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world."
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"My spirit is too weak--mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky."
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"Better to flee from death than feel its grip."
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"I would rather be a serf in a poor man's house and be above ground than reign among the dead."
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"If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?"
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"We don't become angels merely by the instrument of death. If we are angels now, we will be angels in the hereafter. If we are dark, negative personalities now, we will be the same after death."
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"To face death itself should not daunt you. Fear of death is ridiculous, because as long as you are not dead you are alive, and when you are dead there is noting more to worry about!"
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"Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted."
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"Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority."
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"You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went, you can curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, you have to let go."
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"A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death."
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"There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed."
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"We have only one way to be born and many ways to die."
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"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out your Candle."
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"A man is not completely born until he is dead."
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