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Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.
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Theirs is an American tragedy in which we all have played a part. It could go on and on and on, or someone must write the end to it.
Gerald Fordverified·Remarks on Signing a Proclamation Granting Pardon to Richard Nixon·September 8, 1974
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For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
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For death also is one piece of the business of life, and, here as elsewhere, it is enough to do well what comes to our hand.
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Tell over next all those you have known, one after the other: think how one buried his fellow, then lay dead himself, to be buried by a third.
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it was the virtue of the man that I loved, and that has not suffered death
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For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow.
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Only, my dear wife, let us both be patient at this calamity.
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To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.
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Before those who loved him, his memory shines like a reproach; they honour him for silent lessons; they cherish his example; and in what remains before them of their toil, fear to be unworthy of the dead.
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The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life.