"One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die."
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"Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?"
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"Mythology is the womb of mankind's initiation to life and death."
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"To do your own work well, whether it be for life or death."
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"When I have fears that I may ceace to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teaming brain"."
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"I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave - thank God for the quiet grave"
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"I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave--thank God for the quiet grave--O! I can feel the cold earth upon me--the daisies growing over me--O for this quiet--it will be my first."
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"I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness."
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"Thomas Jefferson survives."
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"Life. Consider the alternative."
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"That is the gods' work, spinning threads of death through the lives of mortal men, an all to make a song for those to come."
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"I know death is the fascinating snake under the leaves, sliding and sliding; I know the heart loves him too, can't turn away, can't break the spell. Everything wants to enter the slow thickness, aches to be peaceful finally and at any cost. Wants to be stone."
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"I answer the heroic question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is in my heart and mind and memories."
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"In the garden the door is always open into the "holy" - growth, birth, death. Every flower holds the whole mystery in its short cycle, and in the garden we are never far away from death, the fertilizing, good, creative death."
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"There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil; to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint."
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"We hold death, poverty, and grief for our principal enemies; but this death, which some repute the most dreadful of all dreadful things, who does not know that others call it the only secure harbor from the storm and tempests of life, the sovereign good of nature, the sole support of liberty, and the common and sudden remedy of all evils?"
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"Death pays all debts."
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"The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death."
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"No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more."
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"Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest."
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