G. H. Pember Quotes
But as it is to the dust that we go down at death, so it is from the dust that we arise at the resurrection.
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The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.
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Society doesn't like to deal with death, but it is a natural part of living.
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Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
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Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not being overly sad at the death of those whom we dearly love in our Lord.
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In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.
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To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
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But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.
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No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
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There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
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Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
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Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.
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Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
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Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.
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I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.
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When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
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I've worked very hard to become comfortable with how death works and why it happens. I now know that death isn't out to get me.
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If we ignore our death, we end up just going around completely oblivious to why we do the things we do!
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Death and the dice level all distinctions.
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Don't let them tell us stories. Don't let them say of the man sentenced to death 'He is going to pay his debt to society,' but: 'They are going to cut off his head.' It looks like nothing. But it does make a little difference. And then there are people who prefer to look their fate in the eye.
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Poetry, at least the kind I write, is written out of immediate need; it is written out of pain, joy, and experience too great to be borne until it is ordered into words. And then it is written to be shared.
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I insist that people - wherever they live - have their rights and they must be able to fight for them.
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Looking back isn't going to help you. Moving forward is the thing you have to do.
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But as it is to the dust that we go down at death, so it is from the dust that we arise at the resurrection.
