"To learn to die is an heroic work."

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Source : Mercy Otis Warren (1790). “Poems, dramatic and miscellaneous”, p.147

Mercy Otis Warren

#Death Quotes #Heroic Quotes

“The young women, what can they not learn, what can they not achieve, with Columbia University annex thrown open to them? In this great outlook for women's broader intellectual development I see the great sunburst of the future.”
“Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters.”
“You run and you run to catch up to the sun but it's sinking, racing around to come up behind you again.”
“There are many ways of discarding [books]. You can give them to friends,--or enemies,--or to associations or to poor Southern libraries. But the surest way is to lend them. Then they never come back to bother you.”
“Writing is the starting point from which all goodness (and crappiness) flows.”
“Government works best under the glare of public scrutiny. Absent such scrutiny, abuses occur.”
“Gun-wielding recluse gunned down by local police" isn't the epitaph I want. I am hoping for "Witnesses reported the sound up to two hundred kilometers away" or "Last body part finally located".”
“I have tried therapy a couple of times, but it hasn't worked.”

Source : Interview with Phil Hogan, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2007.

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