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These are the best reasons to do anything in life. People who say things like this are the kind of people who…
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If untimely death came only those who deserved that fate, Keturah, where would choice be? No one would do good for its…
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I have observed that you treat a man as an old garment to be taken apart and stitched again. Perhaps you could…
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Living to an extraordinary age, she mourned them all equally as she buried her husband and, one by one, her children. In…
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And so he did his endless work,' I continued quietly, 'without feeling, without pity, without rest, for to open his heart to…
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...the girl longed for a love that could not be ended by death. From the time she was young, she knew that…
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Tell me what it is like to die," I answered. He dismounted from his horse, looking at me strangely the whole while.…
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Each man, when he dies, sees the landscape of his own soul.
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Had I truly thought I would not die when he kissed me? But I did. For a moment the breath and life…
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It is life that hurts you not death.
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When it is winter and we must walk in the blizzard snow do not our fingers and toes whisper death And when…
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His [Death] voice is cold at first, John. It seems unfeeling. But if you listen without fear, you find that when he…
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Samuel F. B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph, said that whenever he could not see his way clearly, he knelt down and…
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Speaking the words he had been taught, directing them no longer upward but to the earth on which he knelt, he prayed:…
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The lake was silent for some time. Finally, it said: "I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that Narcissus was beautiful.…
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Lying under such a myriad of stars. The sea’s black horizon. He rose and walked out and stood barefoot in the sand…
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He knelt and bent lower, till her breath warmed his face, and in a moment his cheek was in contact with hers.…
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You have no dower," he said. "Live, Keturah. Go home." "But I do have a dower," I said plainly. "This is my…
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Again, stepping nearer, he besought her with another tremulous eager call upon her name. 'Margaret!' Still lower went the head; more closely…
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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