“ There is but one easy place in this world, and that is the grave. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
- 674
“ A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory. ”
- Whittaker Chambers- Copy
- 950
“ And having wisdom with each studious year, in meditation dwelt, with learning wrought, and shaped his weapon with an edge severe, sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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“ A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl. ”
- Ernest Hemingway- Copy
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“ Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
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“ The grave is still the best shelter against the storms of destiny. ”
- G. C. Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ For all may have, If they dare to try, a glorious life, or grave. ”
- George Herbert- Copy
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“ There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see. ”
- Robert Frost- Copy
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“ Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion. ”
- Thomas De Quincey- Copy
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“ One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave. ”
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette- Copy
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“ He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
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“ Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train. ”
- John Milton- Copy
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“ It is the solemn obligation of a leader always to be a leader. Even when - perhaps especially when - you don't feel like being a leader. ”
- Bill Owens- Copy
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“ Let me make a solemn pledge before all of you, before the whole world and before God, that I will devote all my energy and all I possess in my power to serve the people of Nigeria and humanity. ”
- Olusegun Obasanjo- Copy
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“ Henry Miller may write about revelers self-woven into a human hooked rug, because his ecstasy is solemn. ”
- A. J. Liebling- Copy
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“ If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave. ”
- Ralph Kiner- Copy
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“ Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching. ”
- Baltasar Gracian- Copy
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“ Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave. ”
- William Butler Yeats- Copy
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“ I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive. ”
- Elizabeth I- Copy
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