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"So proud she was to die It made us all ashamed That what we cherished, so unknown To her desire seemed. So satisfied to go Where none of us should be, Immediately, that anguish stooped Almost to jealousy."
"You'll find it-when you try to die- The Easier to let go- For recollecting such as went- You could not spare-you know."
"I died for Beauty--but was scarce Adjusted in the Tomb When One who died for Truth, was lain In an adjoining Room"
"I never lost as much but twice, And that was in the sod."
"My life closed twice before its close"
"Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity."
"Look on the grave where thou must sleep Thy last, and strongest foe; It is endurance not to weep, If that repose seem woe."
"That short, potential stir That each can make but once, That bustle so illustrious Tis almost consequence, Is the eclat of death."
"The distance that the dead have gone Does not at first appear- Their coming back seems possible For many an ardent year."
"Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear of death?"
"Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire."
"The reason that you call it 'grief' is because you've been programmed to believe that you should feel bad about death."
"Is childhood ever long enough, or a happy time, or even a beautiful summer day? All of these carry the seeds of the same fierce mystery that we call death."
"What good can come from meeting death with tears? If a man Is sorry for himself, he doubles death."
"Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead."
"To die with glory, if one has to die at all, is still, I think, pain for the dier."
"I ask a wreathwhich will not crush my head. And there is no hurry about it; I shall have, doubtless, a boom after my funeral, Seeing that long standing increases all things regardless of quality."
"These have not the hope to die."
"Death takes no bribes."
"Death is a fisherman, the world we see His fish-pond is, and we the fishes be; His net some general sickness; howe'er he Is not so kind as other fishers be; For if they take one of the smaller fry, They throw him in again, he shall not die: But death is sure to kill all he can get, And all is fish with him that comes to net."
