Quotations Page 'D'

Dancing, the child of Music and Love.

- Sir John David, Orchestra -

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Come, and trip it as you go.On the light fantastic toe.

- Milton, L.Allegre -

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And darest thou thenTo beard the lion in his den :The Douglas in his hall :

- Scott, Marinor -

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No light, But rather darkness visible.

- Milton, Paradise Lost -

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What is this unseen flame of darkness whose sparks are the stars.

- Tagore, Stray Birds -

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Night's darkness is bag that burst with the gold of the dawn.

-Tagore -

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The night kisses fading day whispering to his ear, "I am death, your mother. I am to give you fresh birth."

- Tagore, Stray Birds -

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Marley was dead to begin with.... Old Marley was as dead as door- nail.

-Dickens, A Christmas Carol -

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Let the dead bury their dead.

- New Testament, Mathew -

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O'earth, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?

- New Testament, Corinthions -

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It is as natural to die as to be born.

- Bacon, Essay on death -

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The fountain of death makes the still waters of life play.

- Tagore, Stray Birds -

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Gone before, to that unknown and silent shore.

- Lamb -

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Heaven gives its favourities - early death.

- Byron, Childe Harold -

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Death is the golden key that opens the place of eternity.

- Milton -

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Be still prepared for death; and death of ill shall be the sweeter.

- Shakespeare -

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He that dies pays all debts.

- Shakespeare, Tempest -

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The second vice is lying : the first is running into debt.

- B.Franklin, Poor Richard -

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O, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive !

- Walter Scott -

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