Quote by William Hazlitt
Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in h

Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse. – William Hazlitt

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I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began. – William Hazlitt

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror. – David Herbert Lawrence

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My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent. – Alex Campbell

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Im trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death. – Jack Kevorkian

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On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger. – Hu Shih

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Eating when youre not hungry and taking in that amount of food is exhausting. – Chris Hemsworth

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I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasnt the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up. – Mandy Moore

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The secular world looks to the church and to its chagrin, finds no love, no life, no laughter, no hope and no happiness. – Rod Parsley

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When I was young, I had two older sisters, and since I was the youngest in my family, my mom took me around with her all the time. I was forever with her when she was having coffee in the middle of the afternoon with her three sisters. And they would talk about men. I absorbed a lot of that. – Richard LaGravenese

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