"Life is uncertain; death is certain."
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"I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death."
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"I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it."
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"The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, And hears them never pause, but pass and die."
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"Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities."
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"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colours of life in all their purity."
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"From dust thou art to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul."
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"There is a Reaper, whose name is Death, And, with his sickle keen, He reaps the bearded grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between."
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"To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death freely chosen, death at the right time, brightly and cheerfully accomplished amid children and witnesses: then a real farewell is still possible, as the one who is taking leave is still there; also a real estimate of what one has wished, drawing the sum of one's life--all in opposition to the wretched and revolting comedy that Christianity has made of the hour of death."
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"Day's lustrous eyes grow heavy in sweet death."
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"The report of my death was an exaggeration."
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"...that great lover of peace, a man of giant stature who moulded, as few other men have done, the destinies of his age."
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"Sweetest love, I do not go, For weariness of thee, Nor in hope the world can show A fitter love for me; But since that I Must die at last, 'tis best, To use my self in jest Thus by feign'd deaths to die."
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"Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death."
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"The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying."
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"maybe death isn't darkness, after all, but so much light wrapping itself around us--"
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"Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments of your death. Why do you fear your last day? It contributes no more to your death than each of the others. The last step does not cause the fatigue, but reveals it. All days travel toward death, the last one reaches it."
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"Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear."
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"For life in the present there is no death. Death is not an event in life. It is not a fact in the world."
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"You don't know what is going to come to you in this world; you have to go on living and worrying. Those who die are pitying us; they are blessing us. Why should you grieve for them?"
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