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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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With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts. – Joseph Addison

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else. – Marcus Aurelius

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A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man. – Percival Arland Ussher

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Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense. – Ron Paul

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A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever. – Jesse Jackson

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To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth. – Auguste Rodin

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Our faith comes in moments our vice is habitual. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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