Miguel de Cervantes - Death Quotes

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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and the old sheep.

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There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.

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Love is influenced by no consideration, recognizes no restraints of reason, and is of the same nature as death, that assails alike the lofty palaces of kings and the humble cabins of shepherds; and when it takes entire possession of a heart, the first thing it does is to banish fear and shame from it.

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Well, now, there's a remedy for everything except death.

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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

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The ass will carry his load, but not a double load; ride not a free horse to death.

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Here lies a gentleman bold Who was so very brave He went to lengths untold, And on the brink of the grave Death had on him no hold. By the world he set small store— He frightened it to the core— Yet somehow, by Fate's plan, Though he'd lived a crazy man, When he died he was sane once more.

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There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other.

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There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.

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There is no recollection which time does not put an end to, and no pain which death does not remove.

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