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

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Stars, Twilight, Night

  Anne of Green Gables ch. 17 (1908)

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• The years keep coming and going, Men will arise & depart; Only one thing is immortal: The love that is in my heart.

  Heinrich Heine

  Heart, Men, Years

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• I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.'

  Ann Richards

  Tombstone, Thinking, Government

  "Former Texas Governor Ann Richards Dies at 73". www.foxnews.com. September 14, 2006.

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• I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

  Andy Warhol

  Tombstone, Names, Figments

  Andy Warhol, Annette Michelson, B. H. D. Buchloh (2001). “Andy Warhol”, p.111, MIT Press

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• Sleep undisturbed within this peaceful shrine,
  Till angels wake thee with a note like thine.

  Samuel Johnson

  Sleep, Angel, Peaceful

  "The reader's Johnson: a representative selection from his writings".

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• Speak to Him, thou, for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet- Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Spiritual, Hands, Breathing

  'The Higher Pantheism' (1869)

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• Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Life, Kindness, Generosity

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.403, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.

  Saint Augustine

  Purpose, Gains, Merit

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• Visit the graveyards sometimes and read the headstone epitaphs! There is much to learn from the dark face of the life!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Dark, Faces

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• Row after row with strict impunity
  The headstones yield their names to the element,
  The wind whirrs without recollection.

  Allen Tate

  Wind, Names, Yield

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.20, Macmillan

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• When I remember you, Randy, I'm going to smile, not cry. You're a part of me. One of the best parts. I just wanted to tell you that." She stopp up, brushing the headstone once more. "And if you meet someone called Giselda," she whispered, "tell her she's still part of Spade, too. A beautiful part. Please thank her for that.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Beautiful, Remember You, Remembers You

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• In the time that we're here today, more women and children will die violently in the Darfur region than in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Israel or Lebanon. So, after September 30, you won't need the UN - you will simply need men with shovels and bleached white linen and headstones.

  George Clooney

  Children, Men, Israel

  United Nations Security Council Address on Darfur, delivered 14 September 2006, New York City

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• My closest friend, who died not long ago, is buried near Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery, so I see the gaggle of admirers laying roses at the foot of his tombstone regularly. I have never been tempted to leave flowers there myself. Great theories, shame about the practice. Marx did many things. But inventing class was not one of them.

  Alastair Campbell

  Tombstone, Flower, Long Ago

  "The royals are so thick" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2001.

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• Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Attitude, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1976). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XII: 1835-1862”, p.69, Harvard University Press

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• Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Tombstone, Few Words, Dignity

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• Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Happiness, Death

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Sleep, my little one, sleep.

  Padraig Harrington

  Sleep, Littles

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• We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.

  Teresa of Avila

  Religious, Catholic, Suffering

  St. Teresa of Avila (2002). “Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila”, p.345, A&C Black

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• You only live once. You don't want your tombstone to read: 'Played it Safe.'

  Rosario Dawson

  Tombstone, Safe, Want

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• We turn, three men bound by love, by history, by circumstance, and most certainly by the awful grace of God, and together walk a narrow lane where headstones press close all around, reminding me gently of Warren Redstone’s parting wisdom, which I understand now. The dead are never far from us. They’re in our hearts and on our minds and in the end all that separates us from them is a single breath, one final puff of air.

  William Kent Krueger

  Heart, Men, Air

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• Generally, old media don't die. They just have to grow old gracefully. Guess what, we still have stone masons. They haven't been the primary purveyors of the written word for a while now of course, but they still have a role because you wouldn't want a TV screen on your headstone.

  Douglas Adams

  Media, Hitchhiking, Want

  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Future" (BBC Radio 4) with Douglas Adams, 2001.

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• Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Peace, Positivity, Self Reliance

  1841 Essays: First Series,'Self-Reliance'.

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• Love, marriage, divorce, infidelity... life was the same here as anywhere else, wasn't? She realized now wrong she'd been; the pali wasn't a headstone and Kalaupapa wasn't a grave. It was a community like any other, bound by ties deeper than most, and people here went to their deaths as people did anywhere: with great reluctance, dragging the messy jumble of their lives behind them.

  Alan Brennert

  Divorce, Ties, People

  Alan Brennert (2010). “Moloka'i: A Novel”, p.382, St. Martin's Press

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