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Death is sometimes a punishment, often a gift; to many it has been a favor. -- Seneca |
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A beautiful death is for people who have lived like animals to die like angels. -- Mother Terese |
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A good death does honour to a whole life. -- Petrarch |
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A man can die but once: we owe God a death.
-- Shakespeare |
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Coming to the end of spring my grandmother kicks off her shoes steps out of her faltering body.
-- Betsy Sholl |
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Christianity has made of death a terror that was unknown to the gay calmness of Pagans.
-- Ouida |
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Because I could not stop for Death-he kindly stopped for me-the carriage held but just Ourselves-and Immortality.
-- Emily Dickinson |
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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
-- Leonardo Da Vinci |
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And to the faithful, death the gate of life.
-- John Milton |
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And thou, most kind and gentle death waiting to hush our latest breath O Praise Him-Alleluia! Thou leadest home the child of God and Christ our Lord the way hath trod.
-- St. Francis Of Assisi |
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
-- Tacrus |
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