William Cowper Quotes
Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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Girls pour their insecurities into their looks.
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
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Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.
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Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.
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I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.
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Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.
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I blame feminism and Facebook for the death of the American automobile. I'm a Republican, so I blame everything on feminism - or commies.
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When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.
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Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.
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Bombing, particularly from the perspective of the receiving end, is not 'communication.' Bombs result in death and destruction.
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Death does not exist.
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The very first thing you learn if you're a gentleman is that you never compare one woman to another. That's the way of all death.
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I lived for nearly seven years with the awareness that death was my everyday companion.
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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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I didn't really get London until I read Dickens. Then I was charmed to death by it.
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People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they're somehow discovering reality, but of course that's just another fiction dreamed up by a TV producer.
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A pig resembles a saint in that he is more honored after death than during his lifetime.
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The American people are not just being taxed to death; they're being taxed after death. But, no one should have to sell the life's work of a parent or a loved one just to pay the federal government.
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Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.
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Thinking you're a genius is death.
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Marx's insight of a century-and-a-half ago was not only highly prescient, but is far truer today than in Marx's day.
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As soon as you start to think of that thing that you want to convey or say, you can always just say it much better than you can actually rhyme it or stuff it into a song. It's very, very difficult to just kind of get your point across without going the back way. And you have to be good at that, to not think about things so hard. Let the pen take over, so that it's somebody else's job to dissect the lyrics and tell you what you're all about.
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
