"One death to a man is a serious……" — Richard Francis Burton
"One death to a man is a serious thing: a dozen neutralize one another."
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19 Quotes by Richard Francis Burton
Richard Francis Burton has 19 quotes on this site.
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The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own.
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One cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.
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Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be…
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Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the…
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Of the gladdest moments in human life...is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands.
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Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.
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Do what thy manhood bids thee do.
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If you can’t laugh together in bed, the chances are you are incompatible, anyway. I’d rather hear a girl laugh…
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Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause. He noblest lives and noblest dies who…
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Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off…
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I'd like to be born the son of a duke with 90,000 pounds a year, on an enormous estate.... And…
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More Death Quotes
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one of 13,020 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
— Hannah Arendt
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As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
— Aristotle
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To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death,…
— Aristotle
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I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating…
— Giorgio Armani
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I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every…
— J. J. Abrams
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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a…
— Karen Armstrong
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Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom -…
— Matthew Arnold
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
— Matthew Arnold
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
— Isaac Asimov
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Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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