Quotes with death-like

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  • Bram Stoker He seemed so confident that I, remembering my own confidence two nights before and with the baneful result, felt awe and vague terror. It must have been my weakness that made me hesitate to tell it to my friend, but I felt it all the more, like unshed tears.
    Dracula (1897) Dr. John Seward
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Aneurin Bevan He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • William Shakespeare He that cuts off twenty years of life cuts off so many years of fearing death.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Ben Jonson He that fears death, or mourns it, in the just,
    Shows of the resurrection little trust.
    The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio XXXIV, Of Death, lines 1-2.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Oscar Wilde He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • A. J. P. Taylor He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • Boethius He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad: his countenance unconquered he can shew.
    Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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  • Dhammapada He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot, him I call a real driver; other people are but holding the reins
    Dhammapada
    collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form
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  • Walter Benjamin He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • William Gilmore Simms He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.
    William Gilmore Simms
    American poet, novelist and historian (1806 - 1870)
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  • Don Marquis He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Andrew Morton He's a TV producer, a theatrical impresario, and he wants to be treated as Mr. Windsor but when the going gets rough he wants to be treated like a member of the Royal Family.
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  • William Congreve Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
    William Congreve
    British Dramatist (1670 - 1729)
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  • William Congreve Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
    William Congreve
    British Dramatist (1670 - 1729)
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  • Barry Watson Helen Mirren is like the sexiest woman on the planet to me. She is. Just the way she goes about everything.
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  • Milton Friedman Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
    Milton Friedman
    American economist (1912 - 2006)
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  • Dick Gregory Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
    Dick Gregory
    African-American comedian, civil rights activist, social critic, writer and entrepreneur (1932 - 2017)
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  • Barry Cornwall Her voice is soft; not shrill and like the lark's, but tenderer, graver, almost hoarse at times! As though the earnestness of love prevailed and quelled all shriller music.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • Barack Obama Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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