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• Tobacco is the tomb of love.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Smoking, Tobacco

  Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil: Or, The Two Nations”, p.139

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• It is more reasonable to wish for reputation while it may be enjoyed, as Anacreon calls upon his companions to give him for present use the wine and garlands which they propose to bestow upon his tomb.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wine, Giving, Wish

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• Marriage is the tomb of friendship.

  Hannah Webster Foster

  Hannah Webster Foster (1828). “The Coquette, Or, The Life and Letters of Eliza Wharton: A Novel”, p.34

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• When I sing for God, I feel myself in accord with God, and the house of God, Mecca, is right in front of me. And I worship. When I sing for Mohammed, peace be upon him, our prophet, I feel like I am sitting right next to his tomb, Medina, and paying him respect and admitting to myself that I accept his message.

  Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

  House, Next, Messages

  "Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan". www.red-lines.co.uk. May 1997.

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• It should be pointed out that some of the things done after the arrest of the Gang of Four were inconsistent with Chairman Mao's wishes, for instance, the construction of the Chairman Mao Memorial Hall. He had proposed in the fifties that we should all be cremated when we died and that only our ashes be kept, that no remains should be preserved and no tombs built.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Memorial, Wish, Ashes

  Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org

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• Keep the Feast of the Resurrection. Be a Peter or a John; hasten to the Sepulchre, running together, running against one another, vying in the noble race (cf. Jn. 20:3-4). And even if you be beaten in speed, win the victory of zeal; not looking into the tomb, but going in.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Running, Winning

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• Wise books For half the truths they hold are honored tombs.

  George Eliot

  Wise, Book, Half

  GEORGE ELIOT (1868). “THE SPANISH GYPSY”, p.155

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• The cross, as poignant as it is, is understandable from a human perspective: an innocent man was murdered by crooked politicians and religious leaders. But the empty tomb-- what can you say? Only a supernatural God could accomplish that.

  Jim Cymbala

  Religious, Men, Innocent Man

  Jim Cymbala (2010). “Fresh Wind Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People”, p.160, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Even if the disciples had believed in the resurrection of Jesus, it is doubtful they would have generated any following. So long as the body was interred in the tomb, a Christian movement founded on belief in the resurrection of the dead man would have been an impossible folly.

  William Lane Craig

  Christian, Jesus, Men

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• The Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Country, Religious, Outcomes

  Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The House: Its Origins and Evolution”, Ivan R Dee

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• You shall not dwell in tombs made by the dead for the living.

  Khalil Gibran

  Made

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!

  Nellie Bly

  Would Be, Faults, Prison

  Nellie Bly (2016). “Ten Days in a Mad-House”, p.44, Nellie Bly

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• Great is the rose
  Infected by the tomb,
  Yet burgeoning
  Indifferent to death.

  Nathalia Crane

  Rose, Indifferent

  "Venus Invisible and Other Poems" by Nathalia Crane, ("Tadmore"), 1928.

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• Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb

  Robertson Davies

  Preparation, Deprivation, Stimulus

  Robertson Davies (2008). “Selected works on the art of writing”, Penguin Group Canada

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• The rich pearl of life, Soon moulders in its blackened urn, the tomb.

  Isaac McLellan

  Life, Pearls, Rich

  Isaac McLellan (1830). “The Fall of the Indian: With Other Poems”, p.23

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• The year 1999, seventh month, from the sky will come a great King of Terror: to bring back to life the great King of the Mongols, before and after Mars to reign by good luck.

  Nostradamus

  Kings, Good Luck, Tired

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

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• Cave of the Patriarchs and Rachel's Tomb were not and never will be Jewish sites, but Islamic sites.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Caves, Site

  "Rachel's Tomb was never Jewish". www.jpost.com. March 7, 2010.

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• I am and will always be just simply a basball player, my tomb stone will just say. Baseball.

  Jose Canseco

  Baseball, Player, Stones

  Jose Canseco @JoseCanseco, twitter.com. December 12, 2010.

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• Though I was satisfied that I was on the verge of perhaps a magnificent find, probably one of the missing tombs that I had been seeking for many years, I was much puzzled by the smallness of the opening in comparison with those of other royal tombs in the valley.

  Howard Carter

  Years, Missing, Valleys

  Howard Carter's Diary, November 5, 1922.

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• Death is not "an eternal sleep!" Citizens! efface from the tomb that motto, graven by sacrilegious hands, which spreads over all nature a funereal crape, takes from oppressed innocence its support, and affronts the beneficent dispensation of death! Inscribe rather thereon these words: "Death is the commencement of immortality!"

  Maximilien Robespierre

  Sleep, Hands, Support

  Last speech to the National Convention, www.bartleby.com. July 26, 1794.

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• The business of finding a nation's soul is a long and slow one at the best and a great many prophets must be slain in the course of it. Perhaps when we have slain enough prophets future generations will begin to build their tombs.

  Ralph Vaughan Williams

  Long, Soul, Generations

  Ralph Vaughan Williams (1987). “National Music: And Other Essays”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Surely that little pseudo-gothic church on Broadway, hidden amongst the skyscrapers, is symbolic of the age! On the whole face of the globe the civilization that has conquered it has failed to build a temple or a tomb.

  Andre Malraux

  Civilization, Age, Church

  "The Voices of Silence". Book by Andre Malraux, Doubleday, Part IV, Chapter I, 1953.

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• One of the most important finds within the land of Egypt occurred when the Egyptologist and archaeologist Professor Walter B. Emery (1903-1971) was excavating tombs at the necropolis of Saqqara, one of the oldest cities in the land. There Professor Emery discovered men with blond hair and fair complexions. These individuals were revered and honored by the Egyptians as specially endowed elite.

  Michael Tsarion

  Men, Hair, Egypt

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• Carter started down the stairs, but I grabbed his arm. “Hang on. What about traps?” He frowned. “Traps?” “Didn’t Egyptian tombs have traps?” “Well…sometimes. But this isn’t a tomb. Besides, more often they had curses, like the burning curse, the donkey curse—” “Oh, lovely. That sounds so much better.

  Rick Riordan

  Lovely, Sound, Burning

  Rick Riordan (2013). “The Kane Chronicles: The Complete Series”, p.76, Penguin UK

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• Jesus didn't really die-someone gave him a long drug that made him look like dead, and he revived in the tomb. Answer: Roman soldiers knew how to kill people, and no disciple would have been fooled by a half-drugged, beat-up Jesus into thinking he'd defeated death and inaugurated the kingdom.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Thinking, Roman Soldiers

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