Death Quotes

• "The farthest from the fear are often nearest to the stroke of fate."
  By: Edward Young
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• "The death-bed of the just is yet undrawn By mortal hand--it merits, a divine. Angels should paint it--angels ever there There on a post of honour and of joy. A death-bed's a detector of the heart;-- Here fired dissimulation drops her mask: Virtue alone has majesty in death."
  By: Edward Young
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• "Soon as man, expert from time, has found the key of life, it opes the gates of death."
  By: Edward Young
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• "Man makes a death, which nature never made."
  By: Edward Young
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• "Like other tyrants, death delights to smite what, smitten, most proclaims the pride of power and arbitrary nod."
  By: Edward Young
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• "Life is the triumph of our mouldering clay; death, of the spirit infinite! divine!"
  By: Edward Young
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• "Death wounds to cure: we fall; we rise; we reign! Spring from our fetters; fasten in the skies; Where blooming Eden withers in our sight: Death gives us more than was in Eden lost. This king of terrors is the prince of peace."
  By: Edward Young
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• "O what fine thought we had because we thought that the worst rogues and rascals had died out."
  By: William Butler Yeats
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• "I shall lie hidden in a hut In the middle of an alder wood, With the back door blind and bolted shut, And the front door locked for good. I shall lie folded like a saint, Lapped in a scented linen sheet, On a bedspread striped with bright-blue paint, Narrow and cold and neat. The midnight will be glassy black Behind the panes, with wind about To set his mouth against a crack And blow the candle out."
  By: Elinor Holt Wylie, Prophecy
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• "He first deceased; she for a little tried To live without him, liked it not, and died."
  By: Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Death of Sir Albertus Morton's Wife
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• "But they are dead; those two are dead! Their spirits are in Heaven!" 'Twas throwing words away; for still The little Maid would have her will, And said, "Nay, we are seven!""
  By: William Wordsworth, We Are Seven
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• "O, sir! the good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket."
  By: William Wordsworth, Excursion (bk. I)
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• "The good die first; and they whose hearts are dry as summer dust burn to the socket."
  By: William Wordsworth
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• "Death is the quiet haven of us all."
  By: William Wordsworth
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• "But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him."
  By: Rev. Charles Wolfe, The Burial of Sir John Moore
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• "If I had thought thou couldst have died I might not weep for thee; But I forgot, when by thy side, That thou couldst mortal be; It never through my mind had passed, That time would e'er be o'er When I on thee should look my last, And thou shouldst smile no more!"
  By: Rev. Charles Wolfe, Song--The Death of Mary
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