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  • Voltaire He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
    ― Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • James Baldwin He may be a very nice man. But I haven't got the time to figure that out. All I know is, he's got a uniform and a gun and I have to relate to him that way. That's the only way to relate to him because one of us may have to die.
    ― James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Francis Quarles He that begins to live, begins to die.
    ― Francis Quarles
    British poet (1592 - 1644)
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  • Benjamin Franklin He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Mario Puzo He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.
    ― Mario Puzo
    American author, screenwriter and journalist (1920 - 1999)
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  • Callimachus Here sleeps Saon, of Acanthus, son of Dicon, a holy sleep: say not that the good die.
    Source: Epigrams Epigram 10; translation from J. Banks (ed.) The Wo
    ― Callimachus
    Ancient Greek poet, critic and scholar
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  • Mark Twain History is strewn thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill, but a lie, well told, is immortal.
    ― Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Walter Bagehot History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it.
    ― Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Langston Hughes Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
    ― Langston Hughes
    American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright and columnist (1901 - 1967)
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  • Franklin P. Jones Honest criticism is hard to take, especially from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
    ― Franklin P. Jones
    American journalist (1908 - 1980)
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  • Alexander Pope Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
    ― Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • George Burns How can I die? I'm booked.
    ― George Burns
    American Comedy Actor (1896 - 1996)
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  • Mark Twain How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!
    Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain (2013) 302
    ― Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Norman Douglas How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.
    ― Norman Douglas
    British Author (1868 - 1952)
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  • Alexander Pope How often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
    ― Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Benjamin E. Mays However hard the road, however difficult today, tomorrow things will be better. Tomorrow may not be better, but we must believe that it will be.
    ― Benjamin E. Mays
    American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1894 - 1984)
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  • Henry David Thoreau However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Robert A. Heinlein Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn; when they do, which isn't often, on their own, the hard way.
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    American science fiction writer (1907 - 1988)
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  • Edward. E. Cummings Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink
    ― Edward. E. Cummings
    American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright (1894 - 1962)
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  • John Mason Brown I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.
    ― John Mason Brown
    American drama critic and author (1900 - 1969)
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