“Let age approve of youth, and death complete the same”
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“Let age approve of youth, and death complete the same”
“Fear death? - to feel the fog in my throat, the mist in my face”
“We mortals cross the ocean of this world each in his average cabin of a life”
“Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it”
“There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live”
“As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid”
“If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction”
“Hatred is so lasting and stubborn, that reconciliation on a sickbed certainly forebodes death”
“We hope to grow old, and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and flee from death”
“The man who dies rich dies disgraced”
“God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages”
“I affirm, and would maintain, that true religion consists in proposing, as our great end, a growing likeness to the supreme being”
“To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life”
“If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter”
“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die”
“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it”
“I am not the least afraid to die”
“The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins”
“Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances”
“Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic, if it is pulled out I shall die”