Imperial Rescript to Soldiers and Sailors: Duty is weightier than a mountain, while death is lighter than a feather.

Duty is weightier than a mountain, while death is lighter than a feather. — Imperial Rescript to Soldiers and Sailors

Duty is weightier than a mountain, while death is lighter than a feather.

Imperial Rescript to Soldiers and Sailors

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Life and death are balanced as it were on the edge of a razor. — Samuel Butler
More than the Grave is closed to me – The Grave and that Eternity To which the G — Emily Dickinson
The bones of the Dead will be seen to govern the fortunes of him who moves them. — Leonardo da Vinci
Youth , which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgiv — George Bernard Shaw
Do not feel ashamed if the amount of charity is small because to refuse the need — Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib
If I die prematurely, at any rate I shall be saved from being bored by my own su — Samuel Butler
These actions are not essentially difficult; it is we ourselves that are soft an — Seneca
Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. — William Shakespeare
La gloire est le soleil des morts. — Honoré de Balzac
And alien tears will fill for him Pity's long-broken urn, For his mourners will — Oscar Wilde
Against destiny I fulfilled my duty . Uselessly? No, for I fulfilled it. — Fernando Pessoa