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Why should the devil have all the good tunes?.
Why should the devil have all the good tunes?.
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains read more
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice; there are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, read more
It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice; there are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?.
Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect read more
Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.
...the mind is conscious, but conscious of nothing - I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope read more
...the mind is conscious, but conscious of nothing - I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: so the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than anything I have ever done; it is a far, read more
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than anything I have ever done; it is a far, far, better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
