"Strange secrets are let out by Death Who blabs so oft the follies of this world."
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"Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death."
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"Certainlie these things agree, The Priest, the Lawyer, & Death all three: Death takes both the weak and the strong. The lawyer takes from both right and wrong, And the priest from living and dead has his Fee."
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"Unjustly men hate death, which is the greatest defence against their many ills."
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"I just do it for the niggas that's tryna see a million fo' they die"
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"If I die Imma do it reppin, I'll never do it second."
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"In the end, living is defined by dying."
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"Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains."
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"WE DIE. You will never hear those words spoken in a television ad. Yet this central fact of human existence colors our world and how we perceive ourselves within it."
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"Well-observed facts, though brought to light by passing theories, will never die; they are the material on which alone the house of science will at last be built."
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"Should I not hear, as I lie down in dust, The horns of glory blowing above my burial?"
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"Death is one dream out of another flowing."
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"Death is a meeting place of sea and sea."
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"How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it."
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"Dying ain't in people's plans, is it?"
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"They say death comes like a thief in the night, where is he? I'll hug his neck."
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"Men believe death's elections to be a thing inscrutable yet every act invites the act which follows and to the extent that men put one foot before the other they are accomplices in their own deaths as in all such facts of destiny."
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"I do so hate to leave this world."
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"Without [diversion] we would be in a state of weariness, and this weariness would spur us on to seek a more solid means of escaping from it. But diversion amuses us, and leads us unconsciously to death."
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"We need not have the loftiest mind to understand that here is no lasting and real satisfaction, that our pleasures are only vanity, that our evils are infinite, and, lastly, that death, which threatens us every moment, must infallibly place us within a few years under the dreadful necessity of being forever either annihilated or unhappy."
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