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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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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. – Joseph Addison

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Experience
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Joseph Addison
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Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The minor longs to be at age, then to be a man of business, then to make up an estate, then to arrive at honors, then to retire. – Joseph Addison

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It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace. – Anna Akhmatova

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Our last garment is made without pockets. – Italian Proverb

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I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life. – Corazon Aquino

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Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I dont know how. – Gloria Swanson

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We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers. Our abundance has brought us neither peace of mind nor serenity of spirit. – Martin Luther King,Jr.

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