One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a kind of nerve fever; a kind of ague. One would never say, however (to end once and for all the confusion of these names) "He has St. Vitus's dance," "He has nerve fever," "He has dropsy," "He has ague," since there simply are not any fixed, unchanging diseases to be known by such names.
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If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death.
It is good to die before one has done anything deserving death.
It is good to die before one has done anything deserving death.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
Why fear death when it is the only path to meet the Maker.
Why fear death when it is the only path to meet the Maker.
You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.
You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.
The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, read more
The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
Lord, now lettest now thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word.
(2:29).
Lord, now lettest now thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word.
(2:29).
The cost of living is dying, everybody pays.
The cost of living is dying, everybody pays.
