Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.Thomas Browne
Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous.
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There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident of no end.
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There is another man within me that's angry with me.
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Certainly there is no happiness within this circle of flesh, nor is it in the optics of these eyes to behold felicity the first day of our Jubilee is death
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Life is a pure flame, And we live by an invisible sun within us.
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