"Death is dreadful to the man whose..." - Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.
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“The Indian who was laid under a curse, that the wind should not blow on him, nor water flow to him, nor fire burn him, is a type of us all. The dearest events are summer-rain, and we the Para coats that shed every drop. Nothing is left us now but death. We look to that with a grim satisfaction, saying, there at least is reality that will not dodge us.”
“Of the rest some we know to be dead though they walk among us; some are not yet born though they go through the forms of life; others are hundreds of years old though they call themselves thirty-six.”
“it is strange how the dead leap out on us at street corners, or in dreams”