“An unused life is an early death.”
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death
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“Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.”
“Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.”
“I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death if I could not have one, I would have the other.”
“You must not fear death, my lads defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.”
“It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.”
“Marriage is the death of hope.”
“Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.”
“Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.”
“Our life is made by the death of others.”
“Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.”
“As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.”
“The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.”
“Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.”
“Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.”
“The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.”
“Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.”
“If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.”
“If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.”
“In every parting there is an image of death.”
“Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.”
“The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.”
“On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .”
“It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.”