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• I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Real, Men, Heaven

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• The spirit of Plato dies hard. We have been unable to escape the philosophical tradition that what we can see and measure in the world is merely the superficial and imperfect representation of an underlying reality.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Plato, Philosophy, Philosophical

  Stephen Jay Gould (2006). “The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)”, p.177, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Henceforth, I'll bear Affliction till it do cry out itself, 'Enough, enough, and die.

  William Shakespeare

  Affliction, Bears, Cry

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.798

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• I almost die for food, and let me have it!

  William Shakespeare

  Eating, Let Me

  William Shakespeare, Cynthia Marshall (2004). “As You Like It”, p.163, Cambridge University Press

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• We know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude; and men are more ready to fight and die for a word than for anything else. Words shape thought, stir feeling, and beget action; they kill and revive, corrupt and cure. The "men-of-words"- priests, prophets, intellectuals- have played a more decisive role in history than military leaders, statesmen, and businessmen.

  Eric Hoffer

  Military, Moving, Fighting

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as the Italian proverb says, "The man that lives by hope, will die by despair.

  Joseph Addison

  Italian, Men, Despair

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• Without music I should wish to die.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Music, Wish To Die, Should

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1972). “Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay”

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• The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Swans, Singing, Apollo

  "Tusculanarum Disputationum", I. 30, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 772-73,

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• Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.

  Alexander Pope

  Fighting, Choices, Left

  Alexander Pope, Henry Francis Cary (1841). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. Edited by the Rev. H. F. Cary, Etc”, p.460

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• In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; At every word a reputation dies.

  Alexander Pope

  Queens, Eye, Past

  Alexander Pope (2013). “The Rape of the Lock In Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, p.49, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I'll write, because I'll give - You critics means to live; For should I not supply - The cause, the effect would die

  Robert Herrick

  Writing, Mean, Giving

  Robert Herrick (1852). “Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine”, p.36

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• Calumny is a vice of curious constitution; trying to kill it keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die a natural death.

  Thomas Paine

  Calumny Is, Trying, Vices

  Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.55, Rowman & Littlefield

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• And over the pond are sailing Two swans all white as snow; Sweet voices mysteriously wailing Pierce through me as onward they go. They sail along, and a ringing Sweet melody rises on high; And when the swans begin singing, They presently must die.

  Heinrich Heine

  Sweet, Swans, Two

  Heinrich Heine (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Heinrich Heine (Illustrated)”, p.59, Delphi Classics

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• The spoken discourse may roll on strongly as the great tidal wave; but, like the wave, it dies at last feebly on the sands. It is heard by few, remembered by still fewer, and fades away, like an echo in the mountains, leaving no token of power. It is the written human speech, that gave power and permanence to human thought.

  Albert Pike

  Writing, Echoes, Leaving

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• The ladies of St. James's! They're painted to the eyes; Their white is stays for ever, Their red it never dies; But Phyllida, my Phillida! Her colour comes and goes; It trembles to a lily,-- It wavers to a rose.

  Henry Austin Dobson

  Beauty, Eye, White

  'The Ladies of St James's' (1883)

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• New York is a place where the rich walk, the poor drive Cadillacs, and beggars die of malnutrition with thousands of dollars hidden in their mattresses.

  Duke Ellington

  New York, Dollars, Cadillacs

  Duke Ellington (1973). “Music is my mistress”, Doubleday Books

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• Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.

  William Styron

  Book, Reading, Forever

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• As many people die from an excess of timidity as from bravery.

  Norman Mailer

  Fear, People, Bravery

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• Kill if you must, but never hate: Man is but grass and hate is blight, The sun will scorch you soon or late, Die wholesome then, since you must fight

  Robert Graves

  Hate, Fighting, Men

  Robert Graves, Beryl Graves, Dunstan Ward (1999). “Complete poems”, Carcanet Pr

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• We do not choose to be born.We do not--most of us, choose to die, or the times or conditions of our death. But within all this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we shall live--Courageously or in cowardice, Honorably or dishonorably, With purpose or adrift. We decide what is important and what is trivial. What makes us significant is what we DO, Or REFUSE TO DO. WE DECIDE and WE CHOOSE--and so we give definition to our lives.

  Joseph Epstein

  Giving, Important, Adrift

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• I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.

  Jim Harrison

  Disappointment, Giving, Risk

  Jim Harrison, Robert J. DeMott (2002). “Conversations with Jim Harrison”, p.97, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The nation that buys commands, the nation that sells serves; it is necessary to balance trade in order to ensure freedom; the country that wants to die sells only to one country , and the country that wants to survive sells to more than one.

  Jose Marti

  Country, Order, Balance

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• I'd rather die on my feet making a speech than die of Alzheimer's - and that's what I'm planning to do.

  Tony Benn

  Alzheimer's, Feet, Speech

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• Life must go on, Though good men die.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Death, Men, Good Man

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.176, eBookIt.com

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• People think there's a choice between smoking and immortality, but we've all got to die of something.

  Tom Stoppard

  Thinking, People, Choices

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