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An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.
Author:
Edward Young
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But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.
Author:
William Wordsworth
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Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?
Author:
Mary Wollstonecraft
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Press on! for in the grave there is no work and no device. Press on! while yet you may.
Author:
Nathaniel Willis
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But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot protect something by building a fence around it and thinking that this will help it survive.
Author:
Wim Wenders
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The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce.
Author:
Lemuel Washburn
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He is an old bore. Even the grave yawns for him.
Author:
Herbert Tree
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During this period, Japan's peaceful commercial relations were successively obstructed, primarily by the American rupture of commercial relations, and this was a grave threat to the survival of Japan.
Author:
Hideki Tojo
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Every couple I know has side-by-side grave plots, but when we do it we're the biggest weirdos on the block.
Author:
Billy Thornton
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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green.
Author:
Torquato Tasso
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May you live to see the green grass growing over your grave.
Author:
Frank Stockton
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We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God.
Author:
Matthew Simpson
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If I know that I shall be as an angel, and more; if I shall behold all God has made; if he shall own me for his son and exalt me to honor in his presence, I shall not fear to die, nor shall I dread the grave where Christ once lay.
Author:
Matthew Simpson
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Only weeks after Oslo began, when nearly all the world and most of Israel was drunk with the idea of peace, I argued that a Palestinian society not constrained by democratic norms would be a fear society that would pose a grave threat to Israel.
Author:
Natan Sharansky
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I'll only stop singing when I'm in my grave.
Author:
Compay Segundo
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We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again.
Author:
Samuel Rutherford
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My belief about acting in one foot on a banana peel and the other one in the grave.
Author:
Mark Ruffalo
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Impeachment is not a remedy for private wrongs; it's a method of removing someone whose continued presence in office would cause grave danger to the nation.
Author:
Charles Ruff
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From the cradle to the grave she is subject to the power and control of man. Father, guardian, or husband, one conveys her like some piece of merchandise over to the other.
Author:
Ernestine Rose
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I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave.
Author:
Manfred Richthofen
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To try to correct imbalances with trade restrictions is a grave error.
Author:
Rodrigo Rato
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Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.
Author:
Thomas Quincey
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We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.
Author:
Ludwig Quidde
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I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.
Author:
Dan Quayle
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Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.
Author:
Sextus Propertius
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How many people have a family grave in the backyard? I'm sure I'll end up there, or I'll shrink my head and put it in a glass box in the living room. I'll get more tourists to Graceland that way.
Author:
Lisa Presley
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Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.
Author:
Elvis Presley
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Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.
Author:
Pericles
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Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light.
Author:
Boris Pasternak
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We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.
Author:
Blaise Pascal
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I try to remember, as I hear about friends getting engaged, that it's not about the ring. It's a grave thing, getting married.
Author:
Gwyneth Paltrow
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The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave.
Author:
Camille Paglia
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The danger of that - and there's a grave danger that I, myself, have to be very aware of - is that you become so involved and intrigued in the language that sometimes you lose track that that is only a means to an aesthetic experience that the listener has to get.
Author:
Leo Ornstein
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To say what you feel is to dig your own grave.
Author:
Sinead O'Connor
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Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Religious freedom is too sacred a right to be restricted or prohibited in any degree without convincing proof that a legitimate interest of the state is in grave danger.
Author:
Frank Murphy
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The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.
Author:
John Motley
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I remember in Shallow Grave I remember a few times when we'd only have to do one take. But when you did have to do more than one, you'd build on the one you'd done.
Author:
Ewan McGregor
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The first thing that stuck in the minds of the disciples was not the empty tomb, but rather the empty grave clothes - undisturbed in form and position.
Author:
Josh McDowell
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You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave.
Author:
Frank McCourt
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Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
Author:
W. Maugham
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Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.
Author:
Douglas MacArthur
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Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat.
Author:
Rosa Luxemburg
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But it is well to remember that we are dealing with nations every one of which has a direct individual interest to serve, and there is grave danger in an unshared idealism.
Author:
Henry Lodge
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I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.
Author:
A. Liebling
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I'm happiest at home hanging out with the kids... Having a family has been my saving grace because I don't work back to back on anything or I'd drive myself to an early grave with guilt and worry for my family, whom I'd never see.
Author:
Jude Law
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Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
Author:
Walter Landor
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I'll perform all the way to the grave.
Author:
Patti LaBelle
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Kennedy had been assassinated a month or so before. So we walked to the grave of John Kennedy and ended our walking symbolically at the Arlington National Cemetery.
Author:
Satish Kumar
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If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.
Author:
Ralph Kiner
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Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave.
Author:
Francis Key
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I believe that successfully addressing our national security needs while protecting our basic freedoms and civil liberties requires continual Congressional oversight, and I will continue to work to assert the role of this body in carrying out this grave responsibility.
Author:
Patrick Kennedy
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Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed.
Author:
Thomas Ken
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We knew we were talking about spies. I knew he knew I knew. I was digging my own grave.
Author:
Christine Keeler
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It is immoral from almost any point of view to refuse to defend yourself and others from very grave and terrible threats, even as there are limits to the means that can be used in such defense.
Author:
Herman Kahn
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Bad leadership during the past years has cast on our Party the shadow of great and grave burdens.
Author:
Janos Kadar
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A man who would not love his father's grave is worse than a wild animal.
Author:
Chief Joseph
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My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation.
Author:
Muhammad Jinnah
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For example, the opposition between acute and grave phonemes has the capacity to suggest an image of bright and dark, of pointed and rounded, of thin and thick, of light and heavy, etc.
Author:
Roman Jakobson
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But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.
Author:
Muhammad Iqbal
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Mr. Gonzales' failure to respond to questions legitimately posed to him by the Senate raises grave doubts in my mind as to his fitness to serve the people of the United States as their Attorney General.
Author:
Daniel Inouye
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In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.
Author:
John Ingalls
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There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.
Author:
John Ingalls
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I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
Author:
Victor Hugo
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I think we have grave problems. I am very much concerned about environmental questions, even though in Finnish society, we are not facing the most urgent problems.
Author:
Harri Holkeri
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The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.
Author:
Thomas Hobbes
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The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
Author:
Thomas Hobbes
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He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.
Author:
Matthew Henry
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A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.
Author:
William Hazlitt
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The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences.
Author:
Friedrich Hayek
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Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave - with both ends kicked out.
Author:
Vance Havner
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So I was surprised at the notion that I might have brought anthrax to my home, and would have been even amused if it was not for the fact that this matter is so grave and serious.
Author:
Steven Hatfill
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Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.
Author:
Paul Harvey
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A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.
Author:
Thomas Hardy
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Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.
Author:
Joseph Hall
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The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Author:
Thomas Gray
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Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
Author:
Baltasar Gracian
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If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.
Author:
Samuel Goldwyn
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The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.
Author:
Ellen Glasgow
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Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
Author:
Khalil Gibran
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Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.
Author:
John Galbraith
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
Author:
R. Fuller
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Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go to one's grave without having directed. It's a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.
Author:
Stephen Fry
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There is a serious, immediate and extraordinarily grave threat to the continued existence of this country.
Author:
James Forrestal
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If Lincoln were alive today, he'd be turning over in his grave.
Author:
Gerald Ford
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I think I'll take my record of 13 goals to the grave.
Author:
Just Fontaine
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It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation; it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and religious preparation.
Author:
Louis Finkelstein
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Remember the picture of the president in the classroom, being told of the attack by chief of staff Andy Card? The American people thought they were seeing a man suddenly thrust into a grave challenge no one could have anticipated.
Author:
Howard Fineman
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But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter.
Author:
Sally Field
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Full surely there is a blessedness beyond the grave for those who have already entered on it here, and in no other form than that wherein they know it here, at any moment.
Author:
Johann Fichte
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I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive.
Author:
Elizabeth Elizabeth I
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We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human rights against the civilian population.
Author:
Jan Egeland
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We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.
Author:
Tryon Edwards
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Jealousy is the grave of affection.
Author:
Mary Eddy
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We can know nothing till after this grave debate. The soul must withdraw, for this is not its hour. Now the knife must divide the flesh, and lay the ravage bare, and do its work completely.
Author:
Georges Duhamel
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Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
Author:
Dorothy Dix
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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
Author:
Charles Dickens
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Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?
Author:
Richard Dawkins
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You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
Author:
Quentin Crisp
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The fact that a Republican is in the late Senator Kennedy's old seat probably must have him rolling in his grave, probably spilling his drink.
Author:
Ann Coulter
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Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if I had no newspaper to work for, no need to search for and sometimes find the winged word that just fits, no keen wonder over what each unfolding day may bring.
Author:
Bob Considine
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Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.
Author:
Charles Colton
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
Author:
Sidonie Colette
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A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right minded man without forethought or with reserve.
Author:
Salmon Chase
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We believe, as the President has indicated, that this combination of a rogue state that possesses weapons of mass destruction and has known ties to terrorist organizations, is a grave threat to the people of the United States and to other countries around the world.
Author:
Paul Cellucci
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Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.
Author:
Margaret Cavendish
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Every time I think that I am getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.
Author:
Lillian Carter
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I should like these few words to be read over the grave when my body is placed in the earth; for though it is possible I may be present and conscious of what is going on, I shall not be able to communicate.
Author:
Edward Carpenter
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Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?
Author:
Lord Byron
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Put no inscription over the grave, except the date of my birth and my death; and, wherever I am buried, let the funeral be perfectly private, with as few persons attending, and as little show and expense as possible.
Author:
Isaac Butt
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Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers.
Author:
Luis Bunuel
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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
Author:
Pearl Buck
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They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same.
Author:
Georg Buchner
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Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave.
Author:
Georg Buchner
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Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
Author:
Thomas Browne
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I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist.
Author:
Berkeley Breathed
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
Author:
Christian Bovee
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The grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature appalled, Shakes off her wonted firmness.
Author:
Robert Blair
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The Holocaust committed by the Nazis turned this country, where most of the European Jews used to live and where their culture used to flourish, into a massive grave. This is why initiatives to revive Jewish culture in Poland is so important.
Author:
Marek Belka
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
Author:
Henry Beecher
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They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
Author:
Samuel Beckett
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God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
Author:
Francis Bacon
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None can less afford to delay than the aged sinner. Now is the time. Now or never. You have, as it were, one foot already in the grave. Your opportunities will soon be over. Strive, then, I entreat you, to enter in at the strait gate.
Author:
Archibald Alexander
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Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.
Author:
Henry Adams
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'
Author:
Abigail Adams
