"No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist."

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"Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death."

Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Artist

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"We cannot conceive death as anything else than the afterlife because we cannot comprehend death unless we live."

Sorin Cerin, Romanian Philosopher

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

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

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Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

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

Stephen King, American Author

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"I wish Merry was here," he heard himself saying, and quick thoughts raced through his mind, even as he watched the enemy come charging to the assault. "Well, well, now at any rate I understand poor Denethor a little better. We might die together, Merry and I, and since die we must, why not? Well, as he is not here, I hope he'll find an easier end. But now I must do my best."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

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"You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor."

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"The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it."

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"Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all."

"As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death."

"We cannot conceive death as anything else than the afterlife because we cannot comprehend death unless we live."

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

"Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy."

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"No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation."

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"Woman absent is woman dead."

"The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be."

"You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor."

"The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it."

"It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations."