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death medicine literature
Charles Caleb Colton Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.
death hands body
Charles Caleb Colton The hand that unnerved Belshazzar derived its most horrifying influence from the want of a body, and death itself is not formidable in what we do know of it, but in what we do not.
death two sound
Charles Caleb Colton Death is like thunder in two particulars; we are alarmed, at the sound of it; and it is formidable only from that which preceded it.
death tears world
Charles Dickens 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.
death eye giving
Charles Dickens To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature.
death universal-truth universal
Charles Dickens Death is a mighty, universal truth.
death fire mad
Charles Dickens Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.
death waiting-rooms immortality
Charles Spurgeon Death is the waiting-room where we robe ourselves for immortality.
fire age youth
Charles Caleb Colton A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience.
fire liberty purpose
Charles Caleb Colton The French revolution was a .eune invented and constructed for the purpose of manufacturing liberty; but it had neither lever cogs, nor adjusting powers, and the consequences were that it worked so rapidly that it destroyed its own inventors, and set itself on fire.
fire forever steel
Charles Caleb Colton In most quarrels there is a fault on both sides. A quarrel may be compared to a spark, which cannot be produced without a flint, as well as steel. Either of them may hammer on wood forever; no fire will follow.
fire wish mastery
Charles Dickens And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire.
fire wish mastery
Charles Dickens All through it, I have known myself to be quite undeserving. And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire- a fire, however, inseparable in its nature from myself, quickening nothing, lighting nothing, doing no service, idly burning away.
fire feelings words-of-wisdom
Charles Dickens I had neither the good sense nor the good feeling to know that this was all my fault, and that if I had been easier with Joe, Joe would have been easier with me. I felt impatient of him and out of temper with him; in which condition he heaped coals of fire on my head.
fire mark malice
Charles Simmons Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire.
fire music-is stills
Alan Jackson Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me.
fire tree may
David Walker I may be doomed to the stake and the fire, or to the scaffold tree, but it is not in me to falter if I can promote the work of emancipation.
mad long important
Alan Moore As far as I can see, it's not important that we have free will, just as long as we have the illusion of free will to stop us going mad.
mad interesting midlife
Alan Moore On my fortieth birthday, rather than merely bore my friends by having anything as mundane as a midlife crisis I decided it might be more interesting to actually terrify them by going completely mad and declaring myself to be a magician.
mad matter ifs
Alan Moore If you're functional, it doesn't matter if you're mad.
made clear ifs
Alan Greenspan If I've made myself clear, I've misspoken.
made angle
Chris Bauer Every angle that I looked at was somebody who I admired and was better than me. So it made me very afraid.
mad nurse mind
Edith Sitwell What the reporters are like! They are mad with excitement at the thought of my approaching demise. Kind Sister Farquhar, my nurse, spends much of her time in throwing them downstairs. But one got in the other day, and asked me if I mind the fact that I must die.
mad house
Edith Wharton Every house is a mad-house at some time or another.
made should disposable
David Tudor Loudspeakers should be made to be destroyed and... disposable.
mad followers influential
David Hume Rousseau was mad but influential; Hume was sane but had no followers.