“Christ bounds and terminates the vast desires of the soul; He is the very Sabbath of the soul.”
John Flavel (1627–1691) English Presbyterian clergyman
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 559.
“Death is very, very terminal.”
In a speech raising awareness about the AIDS epidemic.
Source: National Business Review, 1 May 1987, p. 10.
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Max Beckmann (1884–1950) German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor and writer
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Source: Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
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