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

"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."

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

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

"We cannot conceive death as anything else than the afterlife because we cannot comprehend death unless we live."
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"It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen."

"I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break."

"Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh."

"Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever."
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