"If Death stepped miraculously through the glass and came in after you, in all probability you just got up and went along with him, ferociously but quietly."
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"There are three natural anaesthetics: Sleep, fainting, and death."
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"To die in the act of killing is, in essence, to die defeated."
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"If we weep for all the deaths in our country, the tears in our eyes would never dry."
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"I came alone in this world, I have walked alone in the valley of the shadow of death, and I shall quit alone when the time comes."
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"Where death without resistance or death after resistance is the only way, neither party should think of resorting to law-courts or help from the government."
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"Death on the battlefield is welcome to a soldier."
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"The wise are unaffected either by death or life. These are but faces of the same coin."
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"We do not know whether it is good to live or to die. Therefore, we should not take delight in living, nor should we tremble at the thought of death. We should be equiminded towards death. This is the ideal. It may be long before we reach it, and only a few of us can attain it. Even then, we must keep it constantly in view, and the more difficult it seems of attainment, the greater should be the effort we put forth."
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"The first of the month falls every month, too, North or South. And them white folks who sends bills never forgets to send them-the phone bill, the furniture bill, the water bill, the gas bill, insurance, house rent."
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"Life is going forth; death is returning home."
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"Love is the greatest link that we have with those who have temporarily left us."
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"Two months ago my mother died. She made, as the expression goes, a good death."
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"Our Last Will and Testament, providing for the only future of which we can be reasonably certain, namely our own death, shows thatthe Will's need to will is no less strong than Reason's need to think; in both instances the mind transcends its own natural limitations, either by asking unanswerable questions or by projecting itself into a future which, for the willing subject, will never be."
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"O fool, what else is sleep but chill death's likeness?"
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"Thus all things altered. Nothing dies. And here and there the unbodied spirit flies."
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"An evil life is a kind of death."
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"Tis on the living Envy feeds. She silent grows When, after death, man's honor is his guard. So I, when on the pyre consumed I lie, Shall live, for all that's noblest will survive."
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"Man's last day must ever be awaited and none to be counted happy until his death, until his last funeral rites are paid."
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"We beg one hour of death, that neither she With widow's tears may live to bury me, Nor weeping I, with wither'd arms, may bear My breathless Baucis to the sepulchre."
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