Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
TECUMSEHWhen your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way.
More Tecumseh Quotes
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Will we let ourselves be destroyed in our turn without a struggle, give up our homes, our country bequeathed to us by the Great Spirit, the graves of our dead and everything that is dear and sacred to us? I know you will cry with me, ‘Never! Never!’
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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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Show respect to all people and grovel to none. When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself.
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We gave them forest-clad mountains and valleys full of game, and in return what did they give our warriors and our women? Rum, trinkets, and a grave.
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Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
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The way, the only way to stop this evil is for the red man to unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land, as it was first, and should be now, for it was never divided.”
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Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours.
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Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.
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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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The Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.
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My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.
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Brothers, the white people are like poisonous serpents: when chilled they are feeble and harmless, but invigorate them with warmth and they sting their benefactors to death.
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