Edgar Allan Poe Quotes, Death Quotes, Towers Quotes

From a proud tower in the town, Death looks gigantically down.

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

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Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come

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Every man at time of Death, Would fain set forth some saying that may live After his death and better humankind; For death gives life's last word a power to live, And, lie the stone-cut epitaph, remain After the vanished voice, and speak to men.

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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

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Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

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ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee

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IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage, to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in the wound . . . . properly, to put to death by thrusting an upright sharp stake into the body, the victim being left in a sitting position.

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My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has got to go.

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

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It is natural to die as to be born.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Death Quotes , Dying Quotes

Tis on the living Envy feeds. She silent grows When, after death, man's honor is his guard. So I, when on the pyre consumed I lie, Shall live, for all that's noblest will survive.

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There is no way to escape death, it is just like trying to escape by four great mountains touching sky. There is no escape from these four mountains of birth, old age, sickness and death.

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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

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Through winter-time we call on spring, And through the spring on summer call, And when the abounding hedges ring Declare that winter's best of all: And after that there's nothing good Because the spring time has not come- Not know that what disturbs our blood Is but its longing for the tomb.

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On limestone quarried near the spot By his command these words are cut: Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by!

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God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath.

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Unjustly men hate death, which is the greatest defence against their many ills.

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When death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the panting spirit free, a hundred virtues rise, in shapes of mercy, charity, and love, to walk the world and bless it. Of every tear that sorrowing mortals shed on such green graves, some good is born, some gentler nature comes.

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