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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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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. – Joseph Addison

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Wisdom
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Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed. – Joseph Addison

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Imagination
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When life is victorious, there is birth when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace. – Morihei Ueshiba

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Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly. – Elbert Hubbard

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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world. – Edgar Allan Poe

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And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death. – Walt Whitman

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