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  • "He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead."
    By: Anonymous
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  • "No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not, evil."
    By: Zeno
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  • "Early, bright, transient, chaste, as morning dew She sparkled, was exhal'd, and went to heaven."
    By: Edward Young, Night Thoughts (night V, l. 600)
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  • "Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow."
    By: Edward Young, Night Thoughts (night V, l. 1,011)
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  • "And feels a thousand deaths, in fearing one."
    By: Edward Young, Night Thoughts (night IV, l. 17)
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  • "As soon as man, expert from time, has found The key of life, it opes the gates of death."
    By: Edward Young, Night Thoughts (night IV, l. 122)
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  • "The knell, the shroud, the mattock and the grave, The deep, damp vault, the darkness, and the worm."
    By: Edward Young, Night Thoughts (night IV, l. 10)
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  • "Death is the crown of life; Were death denyed, poor man would live in vain; Were death denyed, to live would not be life; Were death denyed, ev'n fools would wish to die."
    By: Edward Young, Night Thoughts (night III, l. 523)
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  • "Lovely in death the beauteous ruin lay; And if in death still lovely, lovelier there; Far lovelier! pity swells the tide of love."
    By: Edward Young, Night Thoughts (night III, l. 104)
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  • "A death-bed's a detector of the heart."
    By: Edward Young, Night Thoughts (night II, l. 641)
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  • "The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileged beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven."
    By: Edward Young, Night Thoughts (night II, l. 633)
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  • "Who can take Death's portrait? The tyrant never sat."
    By: Edward Young, Night Thoughts (night II, l. 52)
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  • "Insatiate archer! could not one suffice? Thy shaft flew thrice; and thrice my peace was slain!"
    By: Edward Young, Night Thoughts (night I, l. 212)
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  • "Men drop so fast, ere life's mid stage we tread, Few know so many friends alive, as dead."
    By: Edward Young, Love of Fame (l. 97)
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  • "What day, what hour, but knocks at human hearts, To wake the soul to sense of future scenes? Deaths stand like Mercurys, in every way, And kindly point us to our journey's end."
    By: Edward Young
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  • "The farthest from the fear are often nearest to the stroke of fate."
    By: Edward Young
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