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“He believed, you know, that it takes a material body, a spiritual body, and a soul, to make a man. Death is simply the slipping off of the outer body, as a husk slips off from its kernel. The deathless frame stands ready then for the soul's untrammeled occupation.”
― Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, The Gates Ajar or Our Loved Ones in Heaven

“The last pain borne, the last tear, the last sigh, the last lonely hour, the last unsatisfied dream, forever gone by; why should not the dead past bury its dead?”
― Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, The Gates Ajar or Our Loved Ones in Heaven

“He lay still, closed his eyes, and let the tide of things wash over him.”
― Willa Cather, Paul's Case

“...[F]orgetfulness of the disagreeable things of this life implies forgetfulness of the pleasant ones. They are all tangled together.”
― Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, The Gates Ajar or Our Loved Ones in Heaven