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"Do not forever with thy vailed lidsSeek for thy noble father in the dust.Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die,Passing though nature to eternity."
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"This world's a city full of straying streets, and death's the market-place where each one meets."
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"She'll die.' 'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive."
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"Death is the ultimate cessation of the individual Self."
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"DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH."
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"Funerals, I had decided, are for the living."
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"The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death."
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"That's part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence."
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"No one dies in the language of the Gnani (the Self-realized one) and every one dies in the language of the agnani (non-Self-realized person). The agnani (non-Self-realized person) mourns and grieves, and the Gnani simply 'Sees'."
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"People don't like to talk about death because it makes them sad."
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"I cannot, if I am in the field of glory, be kept out of sight: wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps."
Glory
"Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon."
Mistake
"If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers."
Time
"Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat."
Time
"My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive."
Happiness
"My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied."
Death
"Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made."
Politics
"Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year."
Truth
"Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better."
Politics
"Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty."
Trust
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