An everlasting heavenly banquet would weary us with bliss and make us wish our souls were in the coffin with our bodies.
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Heaven
For a fallen Marine, a heaven of harps would be hell.
We euphemize death with the softer phrase "passed away", as if everyone, instead of only a lucky few, died peacefully in his sleep.
Mr. Stanley’s Aphorisms and Paradoxes are outstanding examples of the long-form aphorism...
inevitably studded with discrete individual aphorisms that could easily stand on their own.
-James Geary, author of The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism
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