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Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the mome

Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire. – Edward Young

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The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought. – Edward Young

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The future… seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done. – Edward Young

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Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states. – Elizabeth I

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Man dies of cold, not of darkness. – Miguel de Unamuno

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No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist. – Walter Bagehot

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Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. – Francis Bacon, Essays

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