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Quote by David Hume
Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The plea

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence. – David Hume

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This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society. – David Hume

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Human Nature is the only science of man and yet has been hitherto the most neglected. – David Hume

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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker. – David Hume

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The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment. – Sting

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Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love. – Dean Koontz

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A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played, I was at that level of insanity. – Billy Corgan

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Power always thinks… that it is doing Gods service when it is violating all his laws. – John Adams

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I had crossed the line. I was free but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land. – Harriet Tubman

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If you love someone, set them free. If they come back theyre yours if they dont they never were. – Richard Bach

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