"Death may be the greatest of all human blessings."

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"Death may be the greatest of all human blessings."

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"Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war."

Donald Rumsfeld, American Politician

Death, War

"He has gone to the demnition bow-wows."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

Death, Humor, End, Life

"I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

Death, Man

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

Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Artist

Death, Life, Day, Sleep

"A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Death, Inspirational, Power, Happiness, Today

"When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism."

Robert Green Ingersoll, American Lawyer

Death, Fear, Compromise, Duty

"In the center lay the exploded carcass of a lonely sperm whale that hadn't lived long enough to be disappointed with its lot."

Douglas Adams, English Writer

Death, Isolation, Life, Truth

"To be invisible you shouldn't exist, first of all you should make everything that you are dead... second you are invisible. If you are dead it's not possible the thought to exist!"

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Death, Wisdom, Truth, Life, Power

"I feel monotony and death to be almost the same."

Charlotte Bronte, British Novelist

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"Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject."

Dorothy L. Sayers, British Author

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"Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously to answer wisely to consider soberly and to decide impartially."

Law

"Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing."

Philosophy

"Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live."

Values

"If a man would move the world he must first move himself."

Motivation

"A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true."

Morality

"How many things there are which I do not want."

Desire

"If it were said that without such bones and sinews and all the rest of them I should not be able to do what I think is right, it would be true; but to say that it is because of them that I do what I am doing, and not through choice of what is best - although my actions are controlled by Mind - would be a very lax and inaccurate form of expression."

Philosophy

"There is one way, then, in which a man can be free from all anxiety about the fate of his soul - if in life he has abandoned bodily pleasures and adornments, as foreign to his purpose and likely to do more harm than good, and has devoted himself to the pleasures of acquiring knowledge, and so by decking his soul not with a borrowed beauty but with its own - with self-control, and goodness, and courage, and liberality, and truth - has fitted himself to await his journey in the next world."

Philosophy

"Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problems of wheat."

Knowledge

"You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve."

Afterlife