Graves Quotes - Page 8

• The way to really live is to die. The passport to living is to imagine yourself in your grave. Imagine you're lying in your coffin....Now look at your problems from that viewpoint. Changes everything, doesn't it?

  Anthony de Mello

  Change, Lying, Looks

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• Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

  Francis Bacon

  Wise, Witty, Philosophy

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Studies'

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• Grammar is the grave of letters.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Letters, Grammar

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• He was a worshiper of liberty, a friend of the oppressed. A thousand times I have heard him quote these words: 'For Justice all place a temple, and all season, summer.' He believed that happiness is the only good, reason the only torch, justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only priest. He added to the sum of human joy; and were every one to whom he did some loving service to bring a blossom to his grave, he would sleep tonight beneath a wilderness of flowers. . . .

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Love, Summer, Flower

  Cameron Rogers, Robert Green Ingersoll (1927). “Colonel Bob Ingersoll: a biographical narrative of the great American orator and agnostic”

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• The Catholic community must offer support to those women who may find it difficult to accept a child, above all when they are isolated from their family and friends. Likewise, the community should be open to welcome back all who repent of having participated in the grave sin of abortion, and should guide them with pastoral charity to accept the grace of forgiveness, the need for penance, and the joy of entering once more into the new life of Christ.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Children, Support, Abortion

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• The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of great men.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Flames, Ashes

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.735, Delphi Classics

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• What is Fortune, what is Fame?
  Futile gold and phantom name-
  Riches buried in a cave,
  Glory written on a grave.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Names, Gold, Caves

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The works of Henry Van Dyke”

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• Today (1950), the hatred of the Moslem countries against the West is becoming hatred against Christianity itself. Although the statesmen have not yet taken it into account, there is still grave danger that the temporal power of Islam may return and, with it, the menace that it may shake off a West which has ceased to be Christian, and affirm itself as a great anti-Christian world Power.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Christian, Country, Taken

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• Live as though Christ died yesterday, rose from the grave today, and is coming back tomorrow.

  Theodore Epp

  Life, Christian, Yesterday

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• There has been grave error. I do not mean so much error of doctrine as error of emphasis.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Mean, Errors, Doctrine

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• Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave.

  Wendell Phillips

  Example, Speak, Authority

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.114

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• When you awaken in the morning's hush
  I am the swift uplifting rush
  Of quiet birds in circled flight.
  I am the soft stars that shine at night.
  Do not stand at my grave and cry;
  I am not there, I did not die.

  Mary Elizabeth Frye

  Uplifting, Morning, Stars

  Mary Elizabeth Frye, “Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep”

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• When I have one foot in the grave, I will tell the whole truth about women. I shall tell it, jump into my coffin, pull the lid over me and say, "Do what you like now."

  Leo Tolstoy

  Women, Feet, Coffins

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• On thy grave the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation!

  Thomas William Parsons

  Uplifting, Memorial Day, Rain

  Thomas William Parsons (1866). “The magnolia [verse].”, p.29

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• There are five dark matters and five lamps. Love of this world is darkness, and the fear of Allaah is its lamp. Sin is darkness, and its lamp is repentance. The grave is darkness, and its lamp is 'none has the right to be worshipped but Allaah, and Muhammad is the messenger of Allaah.' The hereafter is darkness, and its lamp is the good deed. The Siraat is darkness, and its lamp is certainty of faith.

  Abu Bakr

  Islamic, Dark, Lamps

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• Premature development of the powers of both mind and body leads to an early grave.

  John Quinton

  Mind, Development, Body

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• This day relenting God
  Hath placed within my hand
  A wondrous thing; and God
  Be praised. At His command,
  Seeking His secret deeds
  With tears and toiling breath,
  I find thy cunning seeds,
  O million-murdering Death.
  I know this little thing
  A myriad men will save.
  O Death, where is thy sting?
  Thy victory, O Grave?
  Poem he wrote following the discovery that the malaria parasite was carried by the amopheline mosquito.

  Ronald Ross

  God, Men, Discovery

  Philosophies (1910) "In Exile" pt. 7 (describing his part in discovering the life-cycle of the malaria parasite in 1897; cf. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1979) 77:1)

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  Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Silence, Stupidity

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.140, Basic Books

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• A mother’s love is stronger than distance, more powerful than time and can transcend the grave.

  Tyler Perry

  Mother, Powerful, Distance

  "44 Things Tyler Perry Has Learned, by Tyler Perry" by Vince Mancini, uproxx.com. September 14, 2013.

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• Wayne: I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them ..... the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves. .... I'm quite sure that the concept of a Government-run reservation .... seems to be what the socialists are working for now -- to have everyone cared for from cradle to grave ..... But you can't whine and bellyache 'cause somebody else got a break and you didn't, like those Indians are. We'll all be on a reservation soon if the socialists keep subsidizing groups like them with our tax money.

  John Wayne

  Running, Country, Government

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• I had been conscious a feeling of depression and so I voiced to [Secretary Of War Stimson] my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives. It was my belief that Japan was, at this very moment, seeking a way to surrender with a minimum loss of 'face.'

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Country, War, Loss

  "Mandate for Change: The White House Years, 1953-1956". Book by Dwight D. Eisenhower, pp. 312-313, 1963.

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• They say that somewhere in Africa the elephants have a secret grave where they go to lie down, unburden their wrinkled gray bodies, and soar away, light spirits at the end.

  Robert R. McCammon

  Motivational, Lying, Light

  Robert R. McCammon (2011). “Boy's Life”, p.102, Open Road Media

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• There are times to kill and times not to kill. Please bear this in
  mind with grave consideration.

  Masaaki Hatsumi

  Mind, Bears, Consideration

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• The wife's Mother said, ‘When you're dead, I'll dance in your grave.’ I said: ‘Good, I'm being buried at sea’.

  Les Dawson

  Mother, Sea, Wife

  Les Dawson (2012). “Les Dawson's Joke Book”, p.14, Michael O'Mara Books

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• It's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less vivid and intense ourselves, closer to the grave, we begin to conceive of ourselves as immortal.

  Edward Hoagland

  Religion, Atheism, Vivid

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