Headstone Quotes - Page 2

• But still I dream that somewhere there must be
  The spirit of a child that waits for me.

  Bayard Taylor

  Dream, Children, Childhood

  Bayard Taylor (1863). “The Poet's Journal”, p.80

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• The greatest attribute of Heaven is mercy.

  Francis Beaumont

  Heaven, Mercy, Attributes

  Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1812). “Works: With and Introd. and Explanatory Notes By Henry Weber”, p.479

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• Every man's life is a plan of God.

  Horace Bushnell

  Life, Men, Plans

  Horace Bushnell (1866). “The Vicarious Sacrifice: Grounded in Principles of Universal Obligation”, p.2

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• There never was night that had no morn.

  Dinah

  Healing, Night, Joy

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• To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

  Thomas Campbell

  Sympathy, Death, Memories

  Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1830). “The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume”, p.169

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

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Music, Memories, Voice

  'To - : One word is too often profaned'

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• When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Music, Exquisite

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Evangeline (Annotated Student's Edition)”, p.27, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule.

  William Cowper

  Mercy, Shows

  William Cowper, Henry Stebbing (1869). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper, Esq: Including the Hymns and Translations from Madame Guion, Milton, Etc. ; with a Memoir of the Author”, p.287

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• Mutual love, the crown of all our bliss.

  John Milton

  Memorial, Mutual Love, Crowns

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

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• And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!

  William Shakespeare

  Good Night, Goodnight, Angel

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

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• And if God choose I shall but love thee better after death.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Desire Love, Gravestone, Love Poems

  Sonnets from the Portuguese no. 43 (1850)

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• I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.

  William Allen White

  Positive, Encouraging, Time

  "Vice President Joe Biden's Commencement speech at WFU". www.realclearpolitics.com. May 21, 2009.

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• Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.

  Thomas Moore

  Sympathy, Death, Spiritual

  Thomas Moore (1861). “Poetical works”, p.304

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• I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Death, Witty

  Quoted in L.A. Times, 28 Nov. 1954

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• The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Children, Childhood, Foundation

  "Oratio Pro Cnœo Plancio", XII, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 109-113,

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• Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.

  Rumi

  Home, Funeral, Eulogy

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.28, Penguin UK

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• To know her was to love her.

  Samuel Rogers

  Love, Short Love, Knows

  Samuel Rogers (1836). “Poems”, p.144

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• He hath awakened from the dream of life.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Dream, Memorial, Gravestone

  'Adonais' (1821) st. 39

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• The first shall be last and the last shall be first.

  Killah Priest

  Lasts, Firsts, Gravestone

  Song: B.I.B.L.E, Album: Heavy Mental

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

  Rudyard Kipling

  Memorial, Gravestone, Good Work

  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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• A horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

  Rossiter W. Raymond

  Sympathy, Condolences, Sight

  Attributed in "St. Andrew's Cross" edited by Hubert Carleton, Vol. XXIV, No. 12, (p. 12), September 1910.

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

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Memorial, Funeral, Heaven

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• Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Hope, Sunshine, Goals Dreams

  Louisa May Alcott (2015). “LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Ultimate Collection: 16 Novels & 150+ Short Stories, Plays and Poems (Illustrated): Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, A Modern Mephistopheles, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, Lulu's Library, The Abbot's Ghost, A Garland for Girls…”, p.2033, e-artnow

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• Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sympathy, Grief, Condolences

  Letter to Alfred Douglas, Jan. - Mar. 1897

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• For they can conquer who believe they can.

  John Dryden

  Confidence, Believe, Literature

  "The Works of Virgil".

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