"We will persevere, come life or death."

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"We will persevere, come life or death."

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"You are whatever you shall leave behind when you leave life!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"Again, somehow, one saw life, a pure bead. I lifted the pencil again, useless though I knew it to be. But even as I did so, the unmistakable tokens of death showed themselves. The body relaxed, and instantly grew stiff. The struggle was over. The insignificant little creature now knew death. As I looked at the dead moth, this minute wayside triumph of so great a force over so mean an antagonist filled me with wonder. Just as life had been strange a few minutes before, so death was now as strange."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life."

Thomas Merton, American Author

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"An evil life is a kind of death."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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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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"Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony."

Elizabeth Fishel, American Writer

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"Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality."

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

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"We will persevere, come life or death."

Death, Life, Will

"The prisoners eyed the clothes some time, and laughed a good deal among themselves before they put them on."

Time, Clothes

"The African prisoners are orderly and peaceable among themselves."

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"The event of the landing of these brethren upon our shores is to be, not without its beneficial effect, as well to the colored population of this country, as it promises to be to ill-fated Africa."

Nation, Country, Effect, Population, Promises

"If any fall by the hand of violence, others will continue the blessed work."

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"Indeed, the whole company, although thin in flesh, and generally of slight forms, and limbs, especially, are as good looking and intelligent a body of men as we usually meet with."

Man, Men, Body, Company

"They have a fine breeze and are now we hope, well on their way."

Hope, Now

"If you wish to draw off the people from a bad or wicked custom, you must beat up for a march; you must make an excitement, do something that everybody will notice."

People, Custom, Excitement, March

"These meetings all have excited great attention, and have been of an exceedingly interesting character."

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"The curiosity to see the prisoners appears to be unabated."

Curiosity,