William Hazlitt Quotes About Death
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The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life.
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Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern. Why, then, should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?
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Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.
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A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death.
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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.
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The fear of approaching death, which in youth we imagine must cause inquietude to the aged, is very seldom the source of much uneasiness.
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