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One who rushes madly after inordinate desire, runs the risk of encountering destruction and death.
One who rushes madly after inordinate desire, runs the risk of encountering destruction and death.
If God hath made this world so fair,
Where sin and death abound,
How beautiful beyond compare
Will paradise be read more
If God hath made this world so fair,
Where sin and death abound,
How beautiful beyond compare
Will paradise be found!.
I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends.
Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends.
The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.
The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.
He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
In death a hero, as in life a friend!.
In death a hero, as in life a friend!.
Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a read more
One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a kind of nerve fever; a kind of ague. One would never say, however (to end once and for all the confusion of these names) "He has St. Vitus's dance," "He has nerve fever," "He has dropsy," "He has ague," since there simply are not any fixed, unchanging diseases to be known by such names.
