"Our fear of death is like our..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.
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“Flowers so strictly belong to youth, that we adult men soon come to feel, that their beautiful generations concern not us: we havehad our day; now let the children have theirs. The flowers jilt us, and we are old bachelors with our ridiculous tenderness.”
“Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart!-it seems to say,-there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.”
“Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.”
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“Life becomes livable only to the extent that death is treated as a friend, never as an enemy.”
“I cheerfully quit from life as if it were an inn, not a home; for Nature has given us a hostelry in which to sojourn, not to abide.”
“Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.”
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“I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours.”
“Too many men are afraid of being fools.”
“To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, gives in your weakness strength unto your foe.”