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[15]: 95 To judge by what I now endure, the hand of death grasps me sharply." [11]: 140 [15]: 95 — Salvator Rosa, Italian artist and poet (15 March 1673), when asked how he was "Death is the great key that opens the palace of Eternity." [77] — John Milton, English poet and intellectual (8 November 1674) Death of the Viscount of Turenne.
"My love of God is greater than my fear of death." [183] [184] — Cecil Pugh, GC, MA, Congregational Church minister (5 July 1941), asking to be lowered into the hold of the sinking SS Anselm, where injured airmen were trapped. Pugh then prayed with the men until the ship sank. "Love the immaculate, love the immaculate, love the immaculate." [185]
Last Words of Saints and Sinners: 700 Final Quotes from the Famous, the Infamous, and the Inspiring Figures of History. Kregel Publications. ISBN 9780825496455. Pritchard, Maria (2014). I Told You I Was Ill: Famous Last Words and Astonishing Epitaphs. RW Press. ISBN 9781909284357. Ransford, H. Chris (2015).
Walk down Reader's Digest memory lane with these quotes from famous people throughout the decades. The post 100 of the Best Quotes from Famous People appeared first on Reader's Digest.
25 world leaders and dictators when they were young. Show comments. Advertisement. Advertisement. In Other News. Entertainment. Entertainment. USA TODAY.
García Márquez based his fictional dictator on a variety of real-life leaders, including Gustavo Rojas Pinilla of his Colombian homeland, Generalissimo Francisco Franco of Spain (the novel was written in Barcelona), François Duvalier of Haiti, and Venezuela's Juan Vicente Gómez. The product is a universal story of the disastrous effects ...
Thousands marched in his honor after his death, and his words live on as a source of pride and inspiration. Here are 50 of Harvey Milk’s most memorable quotes. You Might Also Like
The tyrannical Pirate Queen of Totto Land. An immensely brutal and selfish psychopath who forced people to attend her tea parties via death threats to their love ones, sending them their severed heads as presents for refusal to attend her tea parties. Even forcing innocent people to attend her tea parties just to be killed such as Sanji.