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The only people who have no bad tendencies are dead.
- Dennis Prager
Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
- Emily Bronte
Here's the simplest answer: Within weeks, the disciples proclaimed the resurrection of Jesus Christ, that He had been bodily raised from the dead and appeared to them.
- Josh McDowell
Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon It works, on e'er self-transmutative form, Common to now the living, now the dead.
- Philip James Bailey
The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
- Washington Irving
To look upon its grass grown yard, where the sunbeams seem to sleep so quietly, one would think that there at least the dead might rest in peace.
- Washington Irving
Bunter!" "Yes, my lord." "Her Grace tells me that a respectable Battersea architect has discovered a dead man in his bath." "Indeed, my lord? That's very gratifying." "Very, Bunter. Your choice of words is unerring. I wish Eton and Balliol had done as much for me...
- Dorothy Sayers
Baptism is the Sacrament of Faith. Now, dead faith does not suffice for salvation .. .Therefore, the Sacrament of Baptism cannot give salvation to a man whose will ... expels the form of faith.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.
- Henry David Thoreau
Books are the true metempsychosis,--they are the symbol and presage of immortality. The dead men are scattered, and none shall find them. Behold they are here! they do but sleep.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Although I could lament in the language and feelings of David for Absalom, I am constrained to say, peace to his manes. Let us weep for the living, and not for the dead.
- Andrew Jackson
Consistency is contrary to nature contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.
- Aldous Huxley