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Quote by Joseph Addison
The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them. – Joseph Addison

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Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; and grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often ensnares men into beggary, ruin and dishonor. – Joseph Addison

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Hope
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Joseph Addison
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. – Joseph Addison

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legal
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Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people. – Khalil Gibran

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Death, the final, triumphant lover. – Bela Lugosi

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Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men. – Quintus Ennius

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Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live. – Henry Van Dyke

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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck. – Charles Caleb Colton

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And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles that belong to the Christian tradition, it will be forced to create a new official faith and new moral principles which will be binding on its citizens. – Christopher Dawson

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