Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes, Death Quotes, Roots Quotes

There is, I know not how, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls.

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There are two bodies - the rudimental and the complete; corresponding with the two conditions of the worm and the butterfly. What we call "death," is but the painful metamorphosis. Our present incarnation is progressive, preparatory, temporary. Our future is perfected, ultimate, immortal. The ultimate life is the full design.

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Death's stamp gives value to the coin of life; making it possible to buy with life what is truly precious.

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They never fail who die in a great cause.

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Death has a hundred hands and walks by a thousand ways.

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Death to a good man is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his Father's house into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining.

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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

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The sense of death is most in apprehension, And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.

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When Life knocks at the door no one can wait, When Death makes his arrest we have to go.

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We beg one hour of death, that neither she With widow's tears may live to bury me, Nor weeping I, with wither'd arms, may bear My breathless Baucis to the sepulchre.

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Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

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The distance that the dead have gone Does not at first appear- Their coming back seems possible For many an ardent year.

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They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

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Nothing in his life became him like leaving it.

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O pity the dead that are dead, but cannot make the journey, still they moan and beat against the silvery adamant walls of life's exclusive city.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Death Quotes , Wall Quotes

Every thing admonishes us how needlessly long life is.

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Thus all things altered. Nothing dies. And here and there the unbodied spirit flies.

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The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown.

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One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa-blessing it rather than in love with it.

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