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"I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute."
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"Death is softer by far than tyranny."
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"Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it."
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"Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death."
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"What he has done for women is final: he gave to their service the best powers of his mind and the best years of his life. His death consecrates the gift: it can never lessen its value."
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"Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic."
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"I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation."
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"Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death."
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"A few cold words on yonder stone, A corpse as cold as they can be - Vain words, and mouldering dust, alone - Can this be all that's left of thee? O, no! thy spirit lingers still Where'er thy sunny smile was seen: There's less of darkness, less of chill On earth, than if thou hadst not been.Thou breathest in my bosom yet, And dwellest in my beating heart; And, while I cannot quite forget, Thou, darling, canst not quite depart."
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"Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth."
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"Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes."
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"That men, who might have tower'd in the vanOf all the congregated world, to fanAnd winnow from the coming step of timeAll chaff of custom, wipe away all slimeLeft by men-slugs and human serpentry,Have been content to let occasion die,Whilst they did sleep in love's Elysium."
Poetry
"I have clung To nothing, lov'd a nothing, nothing seen Or felt but a great dream!"
Illusion
"I have good reason to be content,for thank God I can read andperhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths."
Literature
"Failure ... is in a sense the highway to success inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterward carefully avoid."
Success
"For axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses."
Philosophy
"Nor do we merely feel these essences for one short hour no, even as these trees that whisper round a temple become soon dear as the temples self, so does the moon, the passion posey, glories infinite, Haunt us till they become a cheering light unto our souls and bound to us so fast, that wheather there be shine, or gloom o'er cast, They always must be with us, or we die."
Nature
"The poetry of the earth is never dead."
Poetry
"There is a budding morrow in midnight."
Inspirational
"If I am destined to be happy with you here-how short is the longest Life-I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you for ever."
Romance
"Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know."
Lifestyle
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