"From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds."

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"Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

Death, Guilt, Mercy, Emotion

"Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death."

Sun Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

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"I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent."

Buddha, Indian Leader

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

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

Death, Life, Cycle, Reality

"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

Death, Cure

"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."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Death, Fear, Acceptance, Life

"Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better this morning,' and Isben looked at her and said, 'On the contrary,' and then he died."

John Green, American Author

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"Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life."

bell hooks, American Critic

Death, Life, Time

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

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well."

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"It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done."

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"The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts."

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"Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all."

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"For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'."

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"Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt."

"Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death."

"I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion."

"To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent."

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

"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval."

"Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better this morning,' and Isben looked at her and said, 'On the contrary,' and then he died."

"Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life."

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

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"Before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well."

"It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done."

"The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts."

"Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all."

"Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast."

"Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew."

"When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead."

"All the windows of my heart I open to the day."

"Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young."

"For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'."