"The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living."
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"I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you."
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"Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it."
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"Drive your cart and plow over the bones of the dead."
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"All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom."
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"No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death."
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"By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too."
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"Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life."
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"Death is my son-in-law, death is my heir."
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"But I will be, A bridegroom in my death, and run into't As to a lover's bed."
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"... And death unloads thee."
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"The sense of death is most in apprehension, And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies."
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"A simple child. That lightly draws its breath. And feels its life in every limb. What should it know of death?"
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"We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held."
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"Death and sorrow will be the companions of our journey; hardship our garment; constancy and valor our only shield. We must be united, we must be undaunted, we must be inflexible."
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"My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand."
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"When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once."
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"The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt."
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"The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he’s dying don’t give him pity for others."
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"Disease generally begins that equality which death completes."
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