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• The only thing that walks back from the tomb with the mourners and refuses to be buried is the character of a man. This is true. What a man is, survives him. It can never be buried.

  J.R. Miller

  Character, Men, Buried

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• I find myself regarding existence as though from beyond the tomb, from another world; all is strange to me; I am, as it were, outside my own body and individuality; I am depersonalized, detached, cut adrift. Is this madness?

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Cutting, Individuality, Adrift

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• Alexander, of whom men tell many legends, lived by his own. Achilles must have Patroklos. He might love his Briseis; but Patroklos was the friend till death. At their tombs in Troy, Alexander and Hephaistion had sacrificed together. Wound Patroklos, and Achilles will have your blood.

  Mary Renault

  Men, Blood, Together

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• Man and the animals are merely a passage and channel for food, a tomb for other animals, a haven for the dead, giving life by the death of others, a coffer full of corruption.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Life, Animal, Men

  Codice Atlantico 76 in The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci Vol. 1, Ch. 1

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• We can die by it, if not live by love, And if unfit for tombs and hearse Our legend be, it will be fit for verse; And if no peace of chronicle we prove, We'll build in sonnet pretty rooms; As well a well wrought urne becomes The greatest ashes, as half-acre tombs.

  John Donne

  Love, Peace, Ashes

  John Donne (1996). “Selected Poetry”, p.88, Oxford University Press, USA

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• When I heard about the first Tomb Raider, I was very interested and I would have liked to have directed that. When I was approached for the second film, I was delighted.

  Jan de Bont

  Second Chance, Firsts, Film

  "Jan De Bont Discusses Tomb Raider 2" By Steve Head, www.ign.com. March 12, 2003.

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• My body is not a tomb for animals.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Animal, Body, Animal Rights

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• One hundred infidels committed suicide as they entered the holy city of Baghdad. Their tanks will become their tombs.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Suicide, Military

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• Death is the inseparable antecedent of life; the seed dies in order to produce the plant, and earth itself is rent asunder and dies at the birth of Dionusos. Hence the significancy of the phallus, or of its inoffensive substitute, the obelisk, rising as an emblem of resurrection by the tomb of buried Deity at Lerna or at Sais.

  Albert Pike

  Order, Rising, Earth

  Albert Pike (1932). “Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry”, p.166, Lulu.com

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• Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Composer, Handel

  Ludwig van Beethoven (2017). “Delphi Masterworks of Ludwig van Beethoven (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• Christian apologists who argue that a story about an empty tomb is convincing evidence of a resurrected body are likely unfamiliar with Occam’s razor, which states that among competing hypotheses, the hypothesis with the fewest assumptions should be selected. They assume that the most likely explanation is miraculous resurrection through some unproven divine connection, but more likely scenarios include a stolen body, a mismarked grave, a planned removal, faulty reports, creative storytelling, edited scriptures, etc. No magic required.

  David G. McAfee

  Christian, Convincing Evidence, Creative

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• I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tomb of the Capulets.

  Edmund Burke

  Country, Sleep, Southern

  Edmund Burke, Arthur P.I. Samuels (2014). “The Early Life Correspondence and Writings of The Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke”, p.221, Cambridge University Press

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I broke into shakespeare's tomb and stole his remains, grinded the bones, smoked it, then got in the game

  Nas

  Games, Nasty, Bones

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• A man crawls into a tomb to die. A boy crawls in to live. You think that's chance?

  Michelle Paver

  Boys, Men, Thinking

  Michelle Paver (2012). “The Outsiders (Gods and Warriors Book 1)”, p.27, Penguin UK

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• And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie,
  That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.

  John Milton

  Kings, Lying, Wish To Die

  John Milton (1874). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: Edited with Introductions, Notes and an Essay on Milton's English by David Masson”, p.414

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• In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.

  William Cowper

  Buried

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• The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives.

  Pericles

  Reality, Men, Stories

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• For heroes have the whole earth for their tomb; and in lands far from their own, where the column with its epitaph declares it, there is enshrined in every breast a record unwritten with no tablet to preserve it, except that of the heart.

  Pericles

  Hero, Heart, Land

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• In practice it undermines the transformation of faith. When Christians concentrate their time and energy on their own separate spheres and their own institutions-whether all-absorbing megachurches, Christian yellow-page businesses, or womb-to-tomb Christian cultural ghettoes-they lose the outward thrusting, transforming power that is at the heart of the gospel. Instead of being 'salt' and 'light' -images of a permeating and penetrating action-Christians and Christian institutions become soft and vulnerable to corruption from within.

  Os Guinness

  Christian, Heart, Practice

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• Who would have listened to his tales of woe when his love was the flickering lamp over his own decaying tomb?

  Faraaz Kazi

  Love, Lamps, Woe

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• This Grave contains all that was Mortal of a Young English Poet Who on his Death Bed in the Bitterness of his Heart at the Malicious Power of his Enemies Desired these words to be engraved on his Tomb Stone "Here lies One Whose Name was writ in Water."

  John Keats

  Lying, Heart, Names

  Epitaph for himself, in Richard Monckton Milnes 'Life, Letters and Literary Remains of John Keats' (1848) vol. 2, p. 91.

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