Charles Caleb Colton Quotes About Death
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The hand that unnerved Belshazzar derived its most horrifying influence from the want of a body, and death itself is not formidable in what we do know of it, but in what we do not.
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Death is like thunder in two particulars; we are alarmed, at the sound of it; and it is formidable only from that which preceded it.
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Death is the only sovereign whom no partiality can warp, and no price corrupt.
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Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.
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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.
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