“ I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard, than in the tombs of the Capulets. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
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“ He that unburied lies wants not his hearse, For unto him a tomb's the Universe. ”
- Sir Thomas Browne- Copy
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“ See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead! ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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“ Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs, but how to remain human in the skyscrapers. ”
- Abraham Joshua Heschel- Copy
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“ Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb — or Dome of Worm — or Porch of Gnome — or some Elf's Catacomb? ”
- Emily Dickinson- Copy
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“ For there no yew nor cypress spread their glom But roses blossom'd each rustic tomb. ”
- Thomas Campbell- Copy
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“ A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient. ”
- Alexander The Great- Copy
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“ Let there be no inscription upon my tomb. Let no man write my epitaph. No man can write my epitaph. I am here ready to die. I am not allowed to vindicate my character; and when I am prevented from vindicating myself, let no man dare calumniate me. Let my character and motives repose in obscurity and peace, till other times and other men can do them justice. ”
- Robert Emmet- Copy
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“ Here before us was sufficient evidence to show that it really was an entrance to a tomb, and by the seals, to all outward appearances that it was intact. ”
- Howard Carter- Copy
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“ With such evidence, as well as the sealed doorway between the two guardian statues of the King, the mystery gradually dawned upon us. We were but in the anterior portion of a tomb. ”
- Howard Carter- Copy
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“ Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name. ”
- Karl Shapiro- Copy
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“ Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers. ”
- Abraham J. Heschel- Copy
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“ Tombs are the clothes of the dead; a grave is but a plain suit; a rich monument is an embroidered one. ”
- Thomas Fuller- Copy
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“ Tombs are the clothes of the dead. A grave is but a plain suit, and a rich monument is one embroidered. ”
- Thomas Fuller- Copy
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“ This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: "Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the earth. ”
- Benito Mussolini- Copy
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“ We waste half our strength in a useless regretting;We sit by old tombs in the dark too long. ”
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox- Copy
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“ A dusty thudding in his head made the scene before him beat like a pulse. His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night and then as its mausoleum. ”
- Kingsley Amis- Copy
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“ Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes. ”
- Lady Marguerite Blessington- Copy
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“ As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less Who goes to bed with whom. ”
- Dorothy Sayers- Copy
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“ Tomb, thou shalt not hold Him longer; Death is strong, but Life is stronger; Stronger than the dark, the light; Stronger than the wrong, the right. ”
- Phillips Brooks- Copy
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“ Then that which living gave you roome, your glorious sepulcher shall be. There wants no marble for a tombe, whose brest hath marble beene to me. ”
- William Habington- Copy
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“ After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs. ”
- Emily Dickinson- Copy
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