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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.
memories book writing
Charles Caleb Colton Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them
memories appreciate literature
Charles Caleb Colton Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
memories mind firsts
Charles Caleb Colton Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies.
memories book reader
Charles Caleb Colton Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers.
memories teaching should-have
Charles Caleb Colton All preceptors should have that kind of genius described by Tacitus, "equal to their business, but not above it;" a patient industry, with competent erudition; a mind depending more on its correctness than its originality, and on its memory rather than on its invention.
memories green lord
Charles Dickens Lord, keep my memory green.
memories husband men
Charles Dickens I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic in a pint bottle; it was not ecstasy but it was comfort.
memories dictator amnesia
Charles Stross Where would dictators be without our compliant amnesia? Make the collective lose its memory, you can conceal anything.
memories liberty might
Charles Stross If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty.
grieving dust wife
William Shakespeare Would it not grieve a woman to be over-mastered by a piece of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marle?
grieving years people
Bill Watterson If I had rolled along with the strip's popularity and repeated myself for another five, 10 or 20 years, the people now 'grieving' for 'Calvin and Hobbes' would be wishing me dead.
grieving missing risk
William Shakespeare So may I, blind fortune leading me, Miss that which one unworthier may attain, And die with grieving.
grieving light rivers
Betty Smith It was the last time she’d see the river from that window. The last time of anything has the poignancy of death itself. This that I see now, she thought, to see no more this way. Oh, the last time how clearly you see everything; as though a magnifying light had been turned on it. And you grieve because you hadn’t held it tighter when you had it every day.
grieving answers doe
Bennie Thompson Finger pointing does not provide answers to grieving relatives
grieving taught difficult
Charlotte Rampling To grieve is something extremely difficult, we don't even know how to begin to grieve, and I don't know how you can be taught to grieve.
grieving period
Steve McCulloch It's a grieving period and, it tugs at the heartstrings to see it." ()
grieving
Bob Cabana They're grieving up there, also. And they feel a little isolated.
grieving passing-away prosperity
Baha'u'llah Should prosperity befall thee, rejoice not, and should abasement come upon thee, grieve not, for both shall pass away and be no more.