"A wooden bed is better than a golden coffin."

Proverb, Russian on death
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"If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times."

Smith, Dean on death
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"Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust."

Dickinson, Emily on death
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"The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows."

Socrates on death
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"If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs."

Spark, Muriel on death
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"In my end is my beginning."

Stuart, Mary on death
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"Authority forgets a dying king."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on death   

"Though lovers be lost love shall not; And death shall have no dominion."

Thomas, Dylan on death
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"Death is not a period, but a comma in the story of life."

Traver, Amos on death
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"For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]"

Bible on death   

"The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]"

Bible on death   

"How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?"

Bright, Grant M. on death
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"Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them."

Eliot, George on death
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"And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living."

Eliot, T. S. on death
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"Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything."

Epictetus on death
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"It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls."

Epicurus on death
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"Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me."

Epitaph on death   

"But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay."

Euripides on death   

"Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born."

Gilmore, Gary Mark on death
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"A useless life is an early death."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on death
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"To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?"

Socrates on death
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"When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity."

Eliot, George on death
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"He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed."

Einstein, Albert on death
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"Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death."

Browne, Sir Thomas on death
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"I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead."

Buffett, Jimmy on death
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"The fear of death is worse than death."

Burton, Robert on death
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"Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep."

Byron, Lord on death
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"I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain."

Cary, Joyce on death
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"Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying."

Cocteau, Jean on death   

"When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language."

Donne, John on death
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"Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven."

Donne, John on doubt
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"Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies."

Donne, John on love
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"Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest things."

Confucius on faith
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"A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake."

Confucius on failure
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"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

Confucius on failure
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"To go too far is as bad as to fall short."

Confucius on excess
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"The devil is the author of confusion."

Burton, Robert on evil
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"Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, they have their reward. But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth. [Mathew 6:2-3]"

Bible on charity   

"Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold."

Keller, Helen on anger
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"I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known."

Confucius on fame
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