The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
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Death is life's way of telling you you've been fired.
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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.
Suicide would be my way of telling God that I quit.
Suicide would be my way of telling God that I quit.
It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.
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When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.
He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.
He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.
Death and taxes are both certain... but death isn't annual.
Death and taxes are both certain... but death isn't annual.
If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live.
If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live.
