"The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn."

Death, Secrets

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"The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn."

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"I've had death threats, if you can imagine."

Pat Boone, American Musician

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"These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out."

Emily Greene Balch, American Educator

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"The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place."

Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Poet

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Voltaire, French Writer

Death, Life, Fear, Conscience

"Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up."

Wilson Mizner, American Dramatist

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"All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead."

Anna Akhmatova, Russian Poet

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"Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn."

Anna Akhmatova, Russian Poet

Death, Heart, Concern, Will

"Fyodor Pavlovitch was drunk when he heard of his wife's death, and the story is that he ran out into the street and began shouting with joy, raising his hands to Heaven: "Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace," but others say he wept without restraint like a little child, so much so that people were sorry for him, in spite of the repulsion he inspired. It is quite possible that both versions were true, that he rejoiced at his release, and at the same time wept for her who released him."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

Death, Grief, Emotion, Release

"Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death."

Erik H. Erikson, American Psychologist

Death, Life, Fear, Children

"Better be killed than frightened to death."

Robert Smith Surtees, English Novelist

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"I've had death threats, if you can imagine."

"These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out."

"The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place."

"The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death."

"Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up."

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"Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn."

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"The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new."

"A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road."

"If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste."

"If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death."

"If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness."