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Death itself is no greater leveller than sleep that makes all men equal, high and low.  But the waking is indeed with a difference. – GRAY

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You and I are old; Old age hath yet honour and  toil; Death closes all, but ere the end some work of noble note may yet be done – TENNYSON

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In sleep and death, the divine element of which we are compounded re-appears, and we cease to hate or criticise. – MARK RUTHERFORD

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There is no passion in the mind of man so weak but it makes and masters the fear of Death.  – BACON

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All who have meant good work with their whole hearts have done good work, although they may die before they have the time to sign it.  – R L STEVENSON

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Say nothing good of me when I am dead lest I be by and overhear your praise.  Say ‘He was a man’ and add, ‘He was my Friend’.  GC EARLE

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Who knows but life be that which men call death, And death, what men call life? – EURIPIDES

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In all men’s eyes, when the light of the life of him is on all past things, Death only dies.  – ALGERNON SWINBURNE

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