"Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes."
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"A man dies not for the many wounds that pierce his breast, unless it be that life's end keep pace with death, nor by sitting on his hearth at home doth he the more escape his appointed doom."
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"The field of doom bears death as its harvest."
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"Absolute monarchy,... is the easiest death, the true Euthanasia of the BRITISH constitution."
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"The dead carry with them to the grave in their clutched hands only that which they have given away."
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"[On Marilyn Monroe:] I think my response to her death was the common one: it came to me with the impact of a personal deprivation but I also felt it as I might a catastrophe in history or in nature; there was less in life, there was less of life, because she had ceased to exist. In her loss life itself had been injured."
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"It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm. / Aha, my little dear, / I say, Your clan will pay me back one day."
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"There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death. They don't honor their own lives ... their minds are full of cotton. They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them.... Most people's deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die."
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"Some few, and I am one of them, even wish to God, though at the loss of millions of lives, that the North would proclaim a crusade against slavery. In the long-run, a million horrid deaths would be amply repaid in the cause of humanity. Great God! how I should like to see the greatest curse on earth - slavery - abolished!"
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"When death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the panting spirit free, a hundred virtues rise, in shapes of mercy, charity, and love, to walk the world and bless it. Of every tear that sorrowing mortals shed on such green graves, some good is born, some gentler nature comes."
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"To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature."
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"The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour."
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"Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark."
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"To the Christian death is the exchanging of a tent for a building."
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"One of the primary goals in life ... should be to prepare for death. Everything else should be secondary."
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"Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant."
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"Is it courage in a dying man to go, in weakness and in agony, to affront an almighty and eternal God?"
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"Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril."
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"It's mighty funny. The end of time has just begun."
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"Some guys they just give up living, and start dying little by little, piece by piece."
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