Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes About Death
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Our dead brothers and sisters still live for us and bid us think of life, not death-of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.
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To rest upon a formula is a slumber that, prolonged, means death.
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Most people have died before they expire; died to all earthly longings, so that the last breath is only, as it were, the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion.
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There are three natural anaesthetics: Sleep, fainting, and death.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
- Born: March 8, 1841
- Died: March 6, 1935
- Occupation: Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States