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~ The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment ~ ~ Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death ~ ~ I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt. ~ ~ Garrick showed Dr. Johnson his fine house, gardens, statues, pictures, etc., at Hampton Court. "Ah! David, David," said the doctor, "these are
the things which make a deathbed terrible. ~ ~ We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality. ~ ~ We cast away priceless time in
dreams, born of imagination,
fed upon illusion, and
put to death by reality. ~ ~ If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times ~ ~ Thus, flexibility, as displayed by water, is a sign of life. Rigidity, its opposite, is an indicator of death. ~ ~ Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment. ~ ~ A useless life is only an early death ~ ~ Man has lost one quality, the quality of zestfulness. And without zest, what is life? Just waiting for death? It can't be anything else. ~ ~ To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent. ~ ~ The current collapse of industrial society may well be the planet's way of avoiding a larger death. ~ ~ The aims of life are the best defense against death. ~ ~ A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death. ~ ~ He that is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death. ~ ~ Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. ~ ~ One shouldn't commit suicide out of fear of death. ~ ~ When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. ~ ~ Osama Bin Laden's death illustrates the resolve of the international community, including Pakistan, to fight and eliminate terrorism. It constitutes a major setback to terrorist organisations around the world. ~ ~ Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death. ~ ~ What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him. ~ ~ Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. ~ ~ Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling. ~ ~ Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it! Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! (American Revolutionary War)
~ ~ As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
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In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. ~ ~ In such a regime, I say, you died a good death if your life had inspired someone to
come forward and shoot your murderer in the chestówithout asking to be paid. ~ ~ Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death. ~ ~ Death, the sable smoke where vanishes the flame. ~ |
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