A Dictionary of Burning Words

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1 quotation from Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), with the subject each one is filed under.

Immortality! We bow before the very term. Immortality! Before it reason staggers, calculation reclines her tired head, and imagination folds her weary pinions. Immortality! It throws open the portals of the vast forever; it puts the crown of deathless destiny upon every human brow; it cries to every uncrowned king of men, "Live forever, crowned for the empire of a deathless destiny !"— filed under Immortality
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