"It seems as though, at the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of heaven infills those who are leaving the light of earth."
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"I fall asleep in the full and certain hope That my slumber shall not be broken; And that, though I be all-forgetting, Yet shall I not be all-forgotten, But continue that life in the thoughts and deeds of those I have loved."
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"I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality."
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"We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the contents...Sometimes the 'unfinisheds' are among the most beautiful symphonies."
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"When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us not forget that we are subject to the general law of mortality, and shall soon be where our doom will be fixed forever."
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"The uncertainty of death is, in effect, the great support of the whole system of life."
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"The time will come to every human being when it must be known how well he can bear to die."
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"It seems to be remarkable that death increases our veneration for the good, and extenuates our hatred for the bad."
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"Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home."
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"I will be conquered; I will not capitulate."
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"Biography is to give a man some kind of shape after his death."
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"Death is always, under all circumstances, a tragedy, for if it is not then it means that life has become one."
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"Death deserves dignity."
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"Rest is for the dead."
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"I want to meet my God awake."
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"We are afraid of the known and afraid of the unknown. That is our daily life and in that there is no hope, and therefore every form of philosophy, every form of theological concept, is merely an escape from the actual reality of what is. All outward forms of change brought about by wars, revolutions, reformations, laws and ideologies have failed completely to change the basic nature of man and therefore of society."
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"He may look on death with joy, who can look on forgiveness with faith."
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"You know your life is over when you own a lawnmower."
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"Death or success is what I quest, cause I'm fearless."
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"Hoping they bury me with ammunition, weed, and shells. Just in case."
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