Alexander Pope Quotes, Life Quotes, Death Quotes

Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death; Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air.

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Death but supplies the oil for the inextinguishable lamp of life.

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That short, potential stir That each can make but once, That bustle so illustrious Tis almost consequence, Is the eclat of death.

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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! How glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

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Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain, and I quit life as if it were an inn, not a home.

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Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

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Death fosters life that life may suckle death.

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You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life.

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That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soiled world.

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Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.

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He died a long painful death. However, you'll be happy to hear that just a few years later he was reincarnated as Shirley MacLaine.

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God's finger touched him, and he slept.

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Death on the battlefield is welcome to a soldier.

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To die: - to sleep: No more; and, by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished.

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I pray-for fashion's word is out And prayer comes round again- That I may seem, though I die old, A foolish, passionate man.

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Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living.

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From dust thou art to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

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What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death.

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Thank Heaven! The crisis /The danger is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last /, and the fever called ''Living'' is conquered at last.

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But we are so fond of life that we have no leisure to entertain the terror of death. It is a honeymoon with us all through, and none of the longest. Small blame to us if we give our whole hearts to this glowing bride of ours, to the appetities, to honour, to the hungry curiosity of the mind, to the pleasure of the eyes in nature, and the pride of our own nimble bodies.

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