"Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave."

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Source : Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Practical works”, p.175

Joseph Hall

#Death Quotes #Dying Quotes #Borders Quotes

“Justice, love, truth, peace and harmony, a serene unity with science and the laws of the universe.”
“I tried my best [on audition for X-Files], and it worked out. I got the part. So I was flabbergasted.”
“Don't get seduced by the next shiny thing, because you'll get caught up chasing shiny things and that will keep you from addressing what you really need to accomplish.”
“Somehow I had turned myself into the worst thing in the world: I was just another man who wanted to teach me something!”
“Our children and grandchildren visit us regularly in the Ã‰lysÃ©e Palace . The little ones are constantly running around outside in the garden. The first time they were intimidated by this place, but now they move around here totally normally. I think it is important that people really live in this place.”
“There are absolutely no problems between me, my dad and my sister. Obviously I grew up with just my mum, but my relationship with my dad is just fine.”
“Most people have only half developed their single personalities. That a man should split his into four and more; and should develop each separately and perfectly, was so abnormal that many normals failed to understand it.”

Source : "Hadrian the Seventh" by Frederick Rolfe, Penguin Modern Classics edition, Harmondsworth, (p. 343), 1963.
“There is only one reason for an individual to side-step to the useless side : the fear of a defeat on the useful side.”

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