“When death, the great Reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.”
Source: Adam Bede
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Proclamation to his People (7 August 1914), quoted in W. W. Coole (ed.), Thus Spake Germany (London: George Routledge & Sons, 1941), p. 7
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'The Epitaph on Bion', tr. R. Polwhele, lines 129–132
The Idylliums of Moschus, Idyllium III

As quoted in "On The Universal Declaration of Human Rights" by Hillary Rodham Clinton in Issues of Democracy Vol. 3, No. 3 (October 1998), p. 11

“We are not as we were. Death has been our pentecost.”
"Pentecost"
Poetry, Interrogations at Noon (2001)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 111.