Memorial Stone Quotes

• Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

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  John Milton

  Death   Keys   Eternity Of Life  

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• Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past.

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  James Russell Lowell

  Past   Memorial   Safe  

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.770, Delphi Classics

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• Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden.

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  Saint Augustine

  Jesus   Headstone   Heavy  

  Saint Augustine of Hippo, Aeterna Press (1873). “On the Trinity”, p.370, Aeterna Press

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• Till the master of all good workmen shall set us to work anew.

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  Rudyard Kipling

  Memorial   Headstone   Gravestone  

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 440+ Short Stories, Complete Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings (Kim, The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Land and Sea Tales, Captain Courageous…)”, p.4626, e-artnow

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• Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.

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  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Stars   Twilight   Night  

  Anne of Green Gables ch. 17 (1908)

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• And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!

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  William Shakespeare

  Good Night   Goodnight   Angel  

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. [373]

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• Death is not a foe, but an inevitable adventure.

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  Oliver Lodge

  Adventure   Memorial   Headstone  

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• Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.

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  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Music   Memories   Voice  

  'To - : One word is too often profaned'

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• It is not length of life, but depth of life.

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  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational   Life   Birthday  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.191, Harvard University Press

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• The song is ended, but the melody lingers on.

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  Irving Berlin

  Positive   Music   Death  

  Title of song (1927)

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• An angel visited the green earth, and took a flower away.

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  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Flower   Angel   Earth  

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Voices Of The Night: The Reaper And The Flowers”

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• Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

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  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational   Life   Positive  

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• What seems to us but dim funeral tapers may be heaven's distant lamps.

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  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Memorial   Funeral   Heaven  

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• He hath awakened from the dream of life.

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  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Dream   Memorial   Headstone  

  'Adonais' (1821) st. 39

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• He that endureth to the end, shall be saved.

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  Steve Berry

  Headstone   Gravestone   Ends  

  Steve Berry (2004). “The Romanov Prophecy”, p.279, Ballantine Books

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• Mutual love, the crown of all our bliss.

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  John Milton

  Memorial   Mutual Love   Crowns  

  John Milton (1869). “Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books”, p.122

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• Those we love don't go away, they sit beside us every day.

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  Liane Moriarty

  Sympathy   Condolences   Losing A Loved One  

  Liane Moriarty (2014). “Big Little Lies: Now an HBO limited series”, p.385, Penguin UK

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• Where there is great love there are always miracles.

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  Willa Cather

  Love   Sympathy   Valentines Day  

  "Death Comes for the Archbishop". Book by Willa Cather, 1927.

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• Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.

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  Martin Luther

  Political   Despair   Mountain  

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• A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.

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  Marcus Aurelius

  Men   Headstone   Gravestone  

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.33, Enhanced Media Publishing

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