Quotes with death-bed

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  • John Ruskin Labour may be shortly divided into positive and negative labour: positive, that which produces life; negative, that which produces death.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • John Keats Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Last night me and Kate we laid in bed talking about getting out,
    Packing up our bags, maybe heading south.
    I'm thirty-five, we got a boy of our own now.
    Last night I sat him up behind the wheel and said, Son, take a good look around,
    This is your hometown.
    Source: Born In The U.S.A. (1984) My Hometown
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Seneca Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Edward Young Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
    Edward Young
    British poet (1683 - 1765)
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  • Epictetus Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Solon Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.
    Solon
    Greek statesman (638 - 558)
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  • Francis Beaumont Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.
    Francis Beaumont
    English writer and poet (1584 - 1616)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Jose Marti Let those who desire a secure homeland conquer it. Let those who do not conquer it live under the whip and in exile, watched over like wild animals, cast from one country to another, concealing the death of their souls with a beggar's smile from the scorn of free men.
    Jose Marti
    Cuban politician, journalist and poet (1853 - 1895)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Aaron Hill Letters, from absent friends, extinguish fear, Unite division, and draw distance near; Their magic force each silent wish conveys, And wafts embodied though, a thousand ways: Could souls to bodies write, death's pow'r were mean, For minds could then meet minds with heav'n between.
    Aaron Hill
    English dramatist and writer (1685 - 1750)
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  • Edna Ferber Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing; for life itself is a writer's love until death.
    Edna Ferber
    American writer (1885 - 1968)
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  • Saul Alinsky Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.
    Saul Alinsky
    American community organizer and writer (1909 - 1972)
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  • Vladimir Nabokov Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.
    Vladimir Nabokov
    American writer and poet (1899 - 1977)
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  • Anais Nin Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Alice Walker Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Robert H. Schuller Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
    Robert H. Schuller
    American Christian televangelist, pastor, motivational speaker, and au (1926 - 2015)
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  • Miguel de Unamuno Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
    Miguel de Unamuno
    Spanish philosophical writer (1864 - 1936)
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