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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
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For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
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Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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Biography lends to death a new terror.
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The valiant never taste of death but once.
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In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
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I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
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Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
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Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
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The stroke of death is as a lover’s pinch, which hurts and is desired.
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Death is a fearful thing.
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The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish it’s source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.
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There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.