Ovid Quotes, Death Quotes, Law Quotes

We are all bound thither; we are hastening to the same common goal. Black death calls all things under the sway of its laws. [Lat., Tendimus huc omnes; metam properamus ad unam. Omnia sub leges mors vocat atra suas.]

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Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.

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One good deed dying tongueless Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. Our praises are our wages.

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When death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the panting spirit free, a hundred virtues rise, in shapes of mercy, charity, and love, to walk the world and bless it. Of every tear that sorrowing mortals shed on such green graves, some good is born, some gentler nature comes.

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If you've got a nice fresh corpse, fetch him out!

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

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Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north - wind's breath, And stars to set; but all, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!

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The meaning of life is that it stops.

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On limestone quarried near the spot By his command these words are cut: Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by!

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Life Quotes , Death Quotes

They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?

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For a single path leads to the house of Hades.

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So proud she was to die It made us all ashamed That what we cherished, so unknown To her desire seemed. So satisfied to go Where none of us should be, Immediately, that anguish stooped Almost to jealousy.

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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Death Quotes , Desire Quotes

The grave itself is but a covered bridge, Leading from light to light, through a brief darkness!

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He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

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Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Death Quotes , Loyal Quotes

He that dies this year is quit for the next.

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God's finger touched him, and he slept.

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Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Death Quotes , Sea Quotes

We enjoy some gratification when our good friends die; for though their death leaves us in sorrow, we have the consolatory assurance that they are beyond the ills by which in this life even the best of people are broken down or corrupted.

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For precious friends hid in death's dateless night.

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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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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Death Quotes , Mother Quotes