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"We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven."
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"I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion."
"Death has a life which kills everybody's life."
"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval."
"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."
"The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired."
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"To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power."
"Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so."
"Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine."
"Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions."
"One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call."
"Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated."
"We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living."
"The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others."
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