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  • To Him I owe my life and breath, And all the joys I have; He makes me triumph over death, And saves me from the grave.

    Easter   Joy   Triumph  
    Samuel Stennett (1824). “The works ...: now first collected into a body: with some account of his life and writings”, p.539
  • Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.

    Robert Frost (2012). “A Boy's Will and North of Boston”, p.45, Courier Corporation
  • Ah, sunflower, weary of time, Who countest the steps of the sun, Seeking after that sweet golden clime Where the traveller's journey is done; Where the youth pined away with desire And the pale virgin shrouded in snow Arise from their graves, and aspire Where my sunflower wishes to go.

    Sweet   Time   Journey  
    'Songs of Experience' (1794) 'Ah, Sun-flower!'
  • Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is even in the grave, And thou must die.

    Sweet   Eye   Roots  
    'Outlandish Proverbs' (1640) no. 420
  • The theologians also should not be irritated. For if they find that this opinion is false, then they would be free to condemn it; and if they discover that it is true, they ought to thank those who have opened the way to finding the true sense of the Scriptures and who have prevented them from falling into the grave scandal of condemning a true proposition.

    Fall   Would Be   Scandal  
  • A little more kindness, A little less speed, A little more giving, A little less greed, A little more smile, A little less frown, A little less kicking, A man while he's down, A little more "We", A little less "I", A little more laugh, A little less cry, A little more flowers, On the pathway of life, And fewer on graves, At the end of the strife.

    Kindness   Flower   Men  
  • But you cannot expect every writer to dwell on human suffering. I think my books do deal with grave issues. People who say they are too positive probably havent read them.

    Book   Thinking   Issues  
  • My favorite Catholic holiday is Easter. For those of you that don't know, Easter is the day we celebrate Jesus rising from the grave and coming back to Earth as a rabbit that hides colored eggs.

    Funny   Jesus   Easter  
  • Class warfare or soaking the so-called rich may make for good populist demagoguery and serve the political ends of the governing masterminds, but it does nothing to solve the grave realities of the federal government's insatiable appetite for spending and its inability to reform itself.

    Mark R. Levin (2013). “The Liberty Amendments”, p.91, Simon and Schuster
  • But there can be no grave for Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson...Shall they not always live in Baker Street? Are they not there this moment, as one writes? Outside, the hansoms rattle through the rain, and Moriarty plans his latest devilry. Within, the sea-coal flames upon the hearth and Holmes and Watson take their well-won case...So they still live for all that love them well; in a romantic chamber of the heart, in a nostalgic country of the mind, where it is always 1895.

    Country   Rain   Writing  
  • One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.

    "Le Cid". Book by Pierre Corneille, act III, scene iii, 1636.
  • I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily acquired than got rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labor in. Who made them serfs of the soil? Why should they eat their sixty acres, when man is condemned to eat only his peck of dirt? Why should they begin digging their graves as soon as they are born?

    Eye   Men   House  
    Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.24, Cambridge University Press
  • .. an emergency stash of Thin Mints. Frickin' Girl Scouts. Those things were way to addictive. They had to be laced with crack." Charlie Davidson Fourth Grave Beneath my Feet

    Girl   Feet   Way  
  • The Soul is shriveled up and buried in a grave that does not love.

    Soul   Doe   Graves  
    Thomas Traherne, Bertram Dobell (1908). “Centuries of Meditations, by Thomas Traherne (1636-1674) Now First Printed Frome the Author”
  • Life treads on life, and heart on heart; We press too close in church and mart To keep a dream or grave apart.

    Dream   Heart   Destiny  
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.230
  • There are grave difficulties on every hand, and more are looming ahead. Therefore, we must go forward.

  • I’m so sorry we’ll never meet,” she whispered, laying her posy atop the late Lord and Lady Payne’s grave. “But thank you. For him. I promise, I’ll love him as fiercely as I can. Kindly send down some blessings when you can spare them. We’ll probably need them, from time to time.

  • Time and fevers burn away Individual beauty from Thoughtful children, and the grave Proves the child ephemeral

    'Another Time' (1940) no. 18, p. 43
  • Have you ever asked yourself why one person is honorable and another dishonorable; why one is honest, another dishonest; why one is moral, another immoral? Most individuals do not intend to be dishonest, dishonorable, or immoral. They seem to allow their characters to erode by a series of rationalizations, lies, and compromises. Then when grave temptation presents itself, they haven't the strength of character to do what they know to be right.

  • Lay your life down. Your heartbeats cannot be hoarded. Your reservoir of breaths is draining away. You have hands, blister them while you can. You have bones, make them strain - they can carry nothing in the grave. You have lungs, let them spill with laughter.

    Laughter   Hands   Bones  
    N. D. Wilson (2013). “Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent”, p.84, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • Pretty girls make graves

    Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.29, Penguin
  • I want to be alone. I need to touch each stone, face the grave that I have grown. I want to be alone.

    Needs   Want   Stones  
    Song: Dialogue
  • I don't get the romances. I did try - a film called 'Roseanna's Grave' in the 1990s. I liked it. But the audience didn't come.

    Romance   Trying   Film  
  • No, no! The energy of life may be Kept on after the grave, but not begun; And he who flagg'd not in the earthly strife, From strength to strength advancing--only he His soul well-knit, and all his battles won, Mounts, and that hardly, to eternal life.

    Matthew Arnold (1869). “Poems”, p.129
  • With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.

    Nassau William Senior (1836). “An Outline of the Science of Political Economy”, p.130
  • Death is a grave mistake! Physical immortality takes forever. It is the only cause that you can't die for.

  • A lot of guys I know loved Sex and the City. They’ll take it to their grave, but they watched every episode of it.

    Sex   Cities   Guy  
    "Newsflash: Allison Williams Has Arrived". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.gq.com. April 12, 2012.
  • The worst job I ever had was as a forensicologist for the United Nations. One time I thought I'd come across the mass grave of a thousand snowmen, but it turns out it was just a field of carrots.

    Funny   Jobs   Humor  
  • Remember, love is all a woman has to give, but it is the only thing which God permits us to carry beyond the grave.

    Theodore Dreiser (2016). “Sister Carrie”, p.184, Theodore Dreiser
  • The future is here, now, and the past is full of actual deeds, real history. Utopias hardly have the meat on their bones to sustain a people in grave times.

    Real   Future   Past  
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