“The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die”
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Martin Luther King, Jr.658
American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Ci… 1929–1968Related quotes
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Discipleship
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"Whom, then, shall I follow?"
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“We'll be Libertines until the day we die.”
Carl Barât (1978) English musician
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“For in the days we know not of
Did fate begin
Weaving the web of days that wove
Your doom.”
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic
Faustine.
Undated
Stefano Guazzo (1530–1593) Italian writer
Chiamo principio della morte tutto il corso della vita cominciando al nostro nascimento, dal quale cominciamo a morire, e per momenti di tempo andiamo ogni giorno al nostro fine.
Della Morte, p. 529.
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 275.