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| A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory |
| John Steinbeck |
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| Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering. |
| Theodore Roosevelt |
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| All say, how hard it is that we have to die - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live |
| Mark Twain |
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| And I looked, and behold, a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death |
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| And now I depart hence condemned by you to suffer the penalty of death, and they, too, go their ways condemned by the truth to suffer the penalty of villainy and wrong; and I must abide by my award - let them abide by theirs. |
| Plato |
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| As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. |
| George Bernard Shaw |
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| Be thou faithful unto death |
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| Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as little reason to deplore the one as there is to be pleased over the other. |
| Mahatma Gandhi |
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| But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead. (2 Corinthians 1:9) |
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| Capital Punishment, a penalty regarding the justice and expediency of which many worthy persons - including all the assassins - entertain grave misgivings |
| Ambrose Bierce |
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| Death came very easily to her. She had lived such an innocent and loving life of service to others and held such a simple faith, that she had no fears at all and did not seem to mind very much. |
| Winston Churchill |
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| Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. |
| Epicurus |
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| Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where. |
| John Dryden |
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| Death is dreadful, but in the first springtime of youth, to be snatched forcibly from the banquet to which the individual has but just sat down is peculiarly appalling |
| Walter Scott |
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| Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see. |
| Helen Keller |
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| Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. |
| Norman Cousins |
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| Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not |
| Epicurus |
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