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Dead Man

«A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.»
Author: Carl Sandburg (Historian, Novelist, Poet) | About: Books | Keywords: Dead Man
«But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man's wife.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: Abimelech, Dead Man
«And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: Dead Man, Dead Sea, poured, vial, vials
«I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: Dead Man
«EMBALM, v.i. To cheat vegetation by locking up the gases upon which it feeds. By embalming their dead and thereby deranging the natural balance between animal and vegetable life, the Egyptians made their once fertile and populous country barren and incapable of supporting more than a meagre crew. The modern metallic burial casket is a step in the same direction, and many a dead man who ought now to be ornamenting his neighbor's lawn as a tree, or enriching his table as a bunch of radishes, is doomed to a long inutility. We shall get him after awhile if we are spared, but in the meantime the violet and rose are languishing for a nibble at his _glutoeus maximus_.»
«He who waits for a dead man's shoes is in danger of going barefoot»
Author: Danish Proverb | Keywords: Dead Man, waits
«He that waits for a dead man's shoes may long go barefoot.»
Author: French Proverb | Keywords: Dead Man, waits
«Immortality is the condition of a dead man who doesn't believe he is dead»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken (Critic, Journalist) | About: Immortality | Keywords: Dead Man
«For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the dead man gives me no pleasure, at least he shows me no contempt; whereas the absent one, silently indeed, but very plainly, tells me that he does not think me worth his attention.»
«I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.»
Author: Rudyard Kipling | Keywords: Dead Horse, Dead Man, hog

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