Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.
Benjamin Rush

Since he is of no use anymore, there is no gain if he lives and no loss if he dies.
Pol Pot

So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.
Edward Dahlberg

Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns, But breathes, like perfect joys, Tender tones.
Frederick Tennyson

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
Robert Frost

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.
Charles Bradlaugh

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
William James

The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
Robert E. Lee

The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.
Samuel Richardson

The joy that isn't shared dies young.
Anne Sexton

The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.
Gertrude Jekyll

The man who dies rich, dies in disgrace.
Tom Hunter

The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.
Havelock Ellis

The people under our system, like the king in a monarchy, never dies.
Martin Van Buren

The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.
William Faulkner

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.
Henry David Thoreau

The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies.
Terry Waite

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.
Richard Adams

The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.
Norman Cousins