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" Quotes and Sayings About the dead

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead

Feeding Hunger Greater work Dead
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

Differ Much Dead Living
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A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare to the jeweled vision of a life started anew.

Bridge Silver Stretch Vision
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Christ was God in human flesh, and He proved it by rising from the dead.
Christ Dead Flesh God
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Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.

Dead Fail Guilt Prevent
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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Dead Life Living Memory
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Everyone shows love and support to the dead because they nomore a competitor.

Everyone Love Support Dead
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In reality, it is more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.

Counting Dead Drain Fruitful
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Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

Dead End Only Seen
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The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.

Belongs Dead Earth Living
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The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.

Affliction Brood Cherish Consider
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The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

Dead Effect Elevate Mind
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The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

Ancient Authors Competition Dead
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Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?

About Anxious Atom Came
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I would suggest the taxation of all property equally, whether church or corporation, exempting only the last resting place of the dead and possibly, with proper restrictions, church edifices.

Church Corporation Dead Equally
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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

Better Dead Job Life
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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Amongst Battlefield Being Dead
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

Come Deadliest Deepest Desires
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I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.

Again Anyone Because Betray
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No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.

Dead Dreams Interpret May
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I tell people, 'I was born in a little house at the dead end of a dirt road that had no name and no number, and you can go anywhere from nowhere.'

Anywhere Born Dead Dead End
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Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

Art Bread Breaking Chief
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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Any Dead Living Precious
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It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.
Back Blessing Brought Dead
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Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long. The closer the deadline, the more likely you'll start thinking waaay outside the box.

Box Closer Deadline Deadlines
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All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.
Ceases Critic Deadly Encouragement
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There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.

Strife Vanquished Dead
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The profoundly 'atomic' character of the universe is visible in everyday experience, in raindrops and grains of sand, in the hosts of the living, and the multitude of stars; even in the ashes of the dead.

Profoundly Atomic Universe Raindrop
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Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

Design Pride Dead Repair
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.

Complete Deadliest Foe Self-Knowledge
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...I have always lived on contrasts! To me the only death is monotony. Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

Lived Contrasts Death Beware
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The living wander away, we don’t hear from them for months, years—but the dead move in with us to stay.

The living Hear Dead
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My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book.

Almost AlmostAll Book Dead
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When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.

Boy Dead sea Sick
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The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Cannot Cry Dead Duty
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I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.

Angry Back Dead Developed
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The Egyptian was the reverse of a theorist or mere thinker. He wanted to perceive with his senses how the soul took its way from the dead body into higher realms - he wanted to have this constructed before him.

Before Body Constructed Dead
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The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
Alone Change Dead Foolish
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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

Excess Grief Dead Madness
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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Happiness Imaginary condition Attributed Living
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So I woke, I listened, and I heard the small sounds of a wood at night, the things moving, the claws in the dead leaves, the wind’s soft sighs.

Woke Listened Small sounds Wood
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?

The dead Lonesome Living
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A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?

A life Stories Bound us The living
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It is only the dead who do not return.

The dead Do not Return
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Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

Written Poetry Reading Destroyed
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The dead govern the living.

The dead Govern The living
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The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive.

The dead Know only One thing Is better
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We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.

Little time To please The living All eternity
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Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time.

Fear Death Weight Time
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Eyo is called the festival of life but it is used to honor the dead. Eyo must be done before a new king is crowned.

The festival Of life To honor The dead
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