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~ Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death ~

~ Dating from Easter, life took on a newness which made it a different kind of life not known before - life that will not be content until all the world comes alive. Despair is death, and despair faded from the minds of men who believed. Fear is death, nd fear no longer invaded the still hours. Cowardice is death, and cowardice ceased to be a part of those who knew Easter. ~

Glenn H. Asquith

~ Better to die ten thousand deaths, Than wound my honour. ~

Joseph Addison

~ The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence. ~

Byron R. White

~ Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat. ~

John Frederick Boyes

~ Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean. ~

David Searls

~ A fool who, after plain warning, persists in dosing himself with dangerous drugs should be free to do so, for his death is a benefit to the race in general. ~

Henry Louis Menck

~ Not going home is already like death. ~

E. Catherine Tobler

~ In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death. ~

Thomas Wolfe

~ Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleeve of care The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,Chief nourisher in life's feast. ~

William Shakespeare

~ Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep: And yet a third of Life is passed in sleep. ~

Lord Byron

~ Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed. ~

Arthur Schopenhauer

~ In Karma-yoga no effort is ever lost, and there is no harm. Even a little practice of this discipline protects one from great fear [of birth and death]. ~

Bhagavad Gita

~ Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it. ~

Pope John Paul II

~ Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself. ~

James Anthony Froude

~ I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some bline, random disaster, or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of death from being a total surprise. ~

Chuck Palahniuk

~ A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumour. ~

Aldous Huxley

~ This life in us; however low it flickers or fiercely burns, is still a divine flame which no man dare presume to put out, be his motives never so humane and enlightened; To suppose otherwise is to countenance a death-wish; Either life is always and in all circumstances sacred, or intrinsically of no account; it is inconceivable that it should be in some cases the one, and in some the other ~

Malcolm Muggeridge

~ There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility. ~

Karl Kraus

~ Law should be like death, which spares no one. ~

Charles de Montesquieu

~ I was never nervous when I had the ball, but when I let go I was scared to death. ~

Lefty Gomez

~ Revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past. ~

Fidel Castro

~ Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion. ~

Arthur Koestler

~ Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys. Look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death! ~

Sun Tzu

~ Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. ~

William Cowper

~ A useless life is an early death. ~

GOETHE

~ I have all the time in the world to worry about death when I am dead. ~

Leonard Reiss

~ The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge. ~

Albert Einstein

~ Immortality - a fate worse than death. ~

Edgar A. Shoaff

~ Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death. ~

Seneca

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