"Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares."

Death, Life, Christian, Separation

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"Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares."

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"Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death."

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"I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent."

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"Death has a life which kills everybody's life."

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"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

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"If we really believe what we say we believe- if we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a "wandering to find home", why should we not look forward to the arrival. There are, aren't there, only three things we can do about death: to desire it, to fear it, or to ignore it. The third alternative, which is the one the modern world calls "healthy" is surely the most uneasy and precarious of all."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better this morning,' and Isben looked at her and said, 'On the contrary,' and then he died."

John Green, American Author

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"Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life."

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"The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired."

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"Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?"

Stephen King, American Author

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"All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness."

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"Humility is nothing else but a right judgment of ourselves."

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"This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God."

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"Be intent upon the perfection of the present day."

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"Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares."

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"Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state."

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"Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God."

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"Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct of ourselves in every state of Life."

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"God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue."

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