"These men, in teaching us how to..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
These men, in teaching us how to die, have at the same time taught us how to live. If this man's acts and words do not create a revival, it will be the severest possible satire on the acts and words that do. It is the best news that America has ever heard.... How many a man who was lately contemplating suicide has now something to live for!
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More on Life
“Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.”
“If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs.”
“Everything in life got its purpose. Find its reason in every season.”
More on Death
“Only the dead can be forgiven; But when I think of that my tongue's a stone.”
“One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death.”
“Severally on the occasion of everything that thou doest, pause and ask thyself, if death is a dreadful thing because it deprives thee of this.”