Quotes with mother-death

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  • Mother Teresa Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Charles Dickens Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Quentin Crisp Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Mother Teresa Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Plato Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Bhagat Singh L. Ram Saran Das was sentenced to death in 1915, and the sentence was later commuted to life transportation. Today myself, sitting in the condemned cell, I can let the readers know as authoritatively that the life-imprisonment is comparatively a far harder lot than that of death.
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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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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  • Karl Kraus Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Carol Shields Learning to skip has brought control into her life. Whenever she feels all sad, she switches into this wholly happy gait, sliding, hopping, and sliding again; when doing this, it seems as though her head separates from her body, making her feel dizzy and emptied out of bad thoughts. Does anyone else know this trick, she wonders? Probably not, although her Mother sometimes smiles and waves from the window.
    Carol Shields
    American-born Canadian novelist (1935 - 2003)
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  • Thomas Hobbes Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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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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  • Mother Teresa Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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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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