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How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!
— Joseph Addison
I am very much concerned when I see young gentlemen of fortune and quality so wholly set upon pleasures and diversions, that they neglect all those improvements in wisdom and knowledge which may make them easy to themselves and useful to the world.
— Joseph Addison
When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow;
— Joseph Addison
We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.
— Joseph Addison
when I see kings lying by those who deposed them,... or holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
— Joseph Addison
Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
So the real jaw-dropping news that January morning, the news that had everyone from Toronto to Tokyo crapping in their cornflakes, concerned the contents of Halliday's last will and testament, and the fate of his vast fortune.
— Ernest Cline
There were years of wilderness guerrilla warfare against the Philistines, a perilous existence with moody, manic King Saul, and all that painful groping and praying through the guilt of murder and adultery; then in his old age he was chased from his throne by his own son and forced to set up a government in exile. And, at the end, his song. It begins with gratitude:
— Eugene Peterson
The terrible threat against life, he said in his book God Is Not Yet Dead, is not death, nor pain, nor any variation on the disasters that we so obsessively try to protect ourselves against with our social systems and personal stratagems. The terrible threat is "that we might die earlier than we really do die, before death has become a natural necessity. The real horror lies in just such a premature death, a death after which we go on living for many years."
— Eugene Peterson
When good men die their goodness does not perish,But lives though they are gone. As for the bad,All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.
— Euripides
The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.
— Euripides