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Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
Speech
Thomas Carlyle

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The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.
Past
Thomas Carlyle

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If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
Life and Living
Johnny Carson

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The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Generations
Willa Cather

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After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
Fame
Cato The Elder

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A person dishonored is worst than dead.
Honor
Miguel De Cervantes

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Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.
Retirement
Lord Chesterfield

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Speak no evil of the dead.
Gossip
Chilo

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There are two perfectly good men, one dead, and the other unborn.
Goodness
Chinese Proverb

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
Work
St. John Chrysosatom

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
Death and Dying
Marcus T. Cicero

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.
God
Eldridge Cleaver

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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
Death and Dying
Jean Cocteau

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The dead govern the living.
Tradition
Auguste Comte

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Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph -- green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.
Epitaphs
Cyril Connolly

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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
Knowledge
E.E. (Edward. E.) Cummings

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A word is dead when it is said. Some say. I say it just, begins to live that day.
Words
Emily Dickinson

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Anger as soon as fed is dead; 'Tis starving makes it fat.
Anger
Emily Dickinson

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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.
Death and Dying
James Duffecy

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
Death and Dying
Albert Einstein

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Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.
Epitaphs
Paul Eldridge

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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
Death and Dying
George Eliot

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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
David Fasold

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
Life and Living
W. C. Fields

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Three can keep a secret if two are dead.
Secrets
Benjamin Franklin

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun