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Even in the same family the gap is not so great; the wound closes up sooner than we should expect.
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It is the pang of parting, the unloosing our grasp, the breaking asunder some strong tie, the leaving some cherished purpose unfulfilled, that creates the repugnance to go
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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.
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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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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?