"Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in the world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes."
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"People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm."
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"He would make a lovely corpse."
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"Let us imagine a number of men in chains and all condemned to death, where some are killed each day in the sight of the others, and those who remain see their own fate in that of their fellows and wait their turn, looking at each other sorrowfully and without hope. It is an image of the condition of man."
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"Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death."
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"We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead."
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"Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details."
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"I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me."
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"You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for the sake of earning rewards. Threats will not make us function; fear is not our incentive. It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live"
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"If you want me again look for me under your boot soles."
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"Comrades mine and I in the midst, and their memory ever to keep for the dead I loved so well."
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"This fell sergeant, Death, Is strict in his arrest."
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"Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come"
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"He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone; At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone."
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"Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death."
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"'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of."
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"Ay, but to die, and go we know not where."
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"The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death."
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"No motion has she now, no force; she neither hears nor sees; rolled around in earth's diurnal course, with rocks, and stones, and trees."
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"Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come."
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