"It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience."

Caesar, Julius on pain
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"I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks."

Boone, Daniel on confusion
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"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat."

Unknown, Source on defeat
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"At sometime in our lives a devil dwells within us, causes heartbreaks, confusion and troubles, then dies."

Roosevelt, Theodore on evil
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"Frank and explicit--that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others."

Disraeli, Benjamin on frankness
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"Our business is to present the Christian faith clothed in modern terms, not to propagate modern thought clothed in Christian terms. Confusion here is fatal."

Packer, J. I. on evangelism
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"The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion."

Lessing, Doris on age and aging   

"I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way: The eye's a better pupil and more willing than the ear, fine counsel is confusing, but example's always clear."

Guest, Edgar A. on preachers and preaching   

"Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."

Havel, Vaclav on hope
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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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"No Christian has ever been known to recant on his death bed."

Ward, C. M. on faith
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"Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives."

Sachs, A. on death
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"Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity."

Milton, John on death
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"For precious friends hid in death's dateless night."

Shakespeare, William on bereavement
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"Life without a friend is death without a witness."

Proverb, Spanish on solitude
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"Feed your faith and doubt will starve to death"

Unknown, Source on doubt
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"Death -- the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening."

Scott, Sir Walter on death
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"The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets."

Rogers, Will on taxes and taxation   

"Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go."

La Fontaine, Jean De on death
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"How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset."

Macdonald, George on death
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"Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on age and aging   

"It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter."

Lewis, C. S. on death
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"There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more."

Mccreery, John Luckey on death   

"Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side."

Maclaren, Alexander on death
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"We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us."

Landers, Ann on death   

"We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death."

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

Dickinson, Emily on death
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"Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you."

Hermes, Georg on death   

"Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away."

Proverb, Persian on death
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"Faith makes a Christian. Life proves a Christian. Trial confirms a Christian. Death crowns a Christian."

Unknown, Source on christians and christianity
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"Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted."

Shelley, Percy Bysshe on death
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"The value of compassion cannot be over-emphasized. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater ;burden can be borne by an individual than to know no one cares or understands."

Stainback, Arthur H. on passion   

"To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long."

Dietrich, Marlene on women
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"Depression is the inability to construct a future."

May, Rollo on despair
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"The Christian's chief occupational hazards are depression and discouragement."

Stott, John R. on despair
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"If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed."

Ostman, Virginia on law and lawyers   

"Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression."

Harvey-Jones, John on planning
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"Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat and worry with laughter at your predicaments, thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution that is certain to come. Never take yourself too seriously."

Mandino, Og on laughter
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"Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite."

Hugo, Victor on genius   

"Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face."

Hugo, Victor on laughter
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