"Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow."
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"Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough."
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"What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him."
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"Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour."
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"Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute."
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"If the rich could hire others to die for them we, the poor, would all make a nice living."
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"The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death."
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"I took a closer look. There is no such thing as ignorance. Ignorance is nothing But my limited knowledge. I took a closer look. There is no such thing as defeat. Defeat is nothing But the inspirer Of my increasing will. I took a closer look. There is no such thing as death. Death is nothing But my strengthening And Dreaming rest."
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"When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine."
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"No matter how expected, death is always the ultimate surprise."
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"Death - to blink for an exceptionally long period of time."
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"If there wasn't death, I think you couldn't go on."
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"Death's got an Invisibility Cloak?" Harry interrupted again. "So he can sneak up on people," said Ron. "Sometimes he gets bored of running at them, flapping his arms and shrieking."
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"Death is just life's next big adventure."
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"Harry, you wonderful boy, you brave, brave man."
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"I didn't realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone."
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"A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!"
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"Life and death are but phases of the same thing, the reverse and obverse of the same coin. Death is as necessary for man's growth as life itself."
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"And now, I am dying beyond my means. (Said while sipping champagne on his deathbed.)"
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"Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him."
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