Famous quotes containing the word died:
“That for which Paul lived and died so gloriously; that for which Jesus gave himself to be crucified; the end that animated the thousand martyrs and heroes who have followed his steps, was to redeem us from a formal religion, and teach us to seek our well-being in the formation of the soul.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“I have heard a good many pretend that they are going to die; or that they have died, for aught that I know. Nonsense! Ill defy them to do it. They have nt got life enough in them.... Only half a dozen or so have died since the world began.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Cotton Mather died when I was a boy. The books
He read, all day, all night and all the nights,
Had got him nowhere. There was always the doubt,
That made him preach the louder, long for a church
In which his voice would roll its cadences,
After the sermon, to quiet that mouse in the wall.”
—Wallace Stevens (18791955)