the encounter with death is the great turning-point in the lives of those who live on. - Dorothy Canfield Fisher - Quotesmemo.com

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Dorothy Canfield Fisher

the encounter with death is the great turning-point in the lives of those who live on.

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It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

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