[W]e all lie down in our bed of earth as sure to wake as ever we can be to shut our eyes. – Joseph Hall (1574–1656), Bishop of Norwich, The Breathings of the Devout S
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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning. – Benjamin Franklin
Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead. – Giacomo Casanova
A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. – Aldous Huxley
Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all. – Walt Whitman
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