But harder still it has proved to resist and rule the dragon Money, with his paper wings. Chancellors and Boards of Trade,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Sleep sweetly in your humble graves,Sleep, martyrs of a fallen cause;Though yet no marble column cravesThe pilgrim here to pause.Stoop, angels, hither… — Henry Timrod Copy Share Image
Love seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it. I think we take it with us past the grave. Do we… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
In those days, our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all, and thought to include all; but now, to aid in… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
At such times, the heart of man turns instictively towards his Maker. In prosperity, and whenever there is nothing to injure or… — Solomon Northup Copy Share Image
The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experience, & to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There where hundreds of graves. There where hundreds of women. There were hundreds of daughters. There were hundreds of sons. And hundreds… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I'm getting older, so how people face grave circumstances is of interest to me. And you meet a lot of people who… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
Then, at the end of every hand, Miss Bolo would inquire with a dismal countenance and reproachful sigh, why Mr. Pickwick had… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The thing that strikes me now when I think about the Wilderness of Childhood is the incredible degree of freedom my parents… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
We have been told . . . that this life is a necessary part in the course of progression designed by our… — James E. Talmage Copy Share Image
A magazine editor recently asked me to sit down on my 40th birthday and write an article on the most important things… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Such was the unhappy condition of the Roman emperors, that, whatever might be their conduct, their fate was commonly the same. A… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
No language can fitly express the meanness, the baseness, the brutality, with which the world has ever treated its victims of one… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
I did a bunch of blue-collar jobs, because I knew I'd wind up with a white-collar job at some point, and I… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
The biggest defeat in every department of life is to forget, especially the things that have done you in, and to die… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No, my secrets are of the grave and must be kept. And this is how I sometimes think of myself, as a… — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
How do I know you'll keep your word?" asked Coraline. "I swear it," said the other mother. "I swear it on my… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Any place, then, can become a cemetery. All it takes is your body. It's not fair, I think, and I get this… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
What you are lies with you. If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
Ho, Ho, Sir Surgeon. You are too delicate to tell the man that he is ill. You hope to heal the sick… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Seriously, I think it is a grave fault in life that so much time is wasted in social matters, because it not… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
When a friend is carried to his grave, we at once find excuses for every weakness, and palliation of every fault. We… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The god of Moses would call for other tribes, including his favorite one, to suffer massacre and plague and even extirpation, but… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Even the men most richly endowed with ability, education, and opportunity, even the giants of the race, after the completest life possible,… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
So live, that when thy summons comes to join, The innumerable caravan which moves, To that mysterious realm where each shall take,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It stands to reason that if we direct all our efforts towards reaching a goal, we stand in grave danger of losing… — Viola Spolin Copy Share Image
Therefore I tell my sorrows to the stones; Who, though they cannot answer my distress, Yet in some sort they are better… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if he ignores… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In Colma, a suburb of San Francisco, California there's a proposal pending to tax . . . the dead. If proponents get… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
But on top of all that, the feelings about Princess, I'd also gone through an entire year of celibacy based on my… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Yet a personal God can become a grave liability. He can be a mere idol carved in our own image, a projection… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
A little more kindness, A little less speed, A little more giving, A little less greed, A little more smile, A little… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A daughter of a King of Ireland, heard A voice singing on a May Eve like this, And followed half awake and… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Yes, he is here in this open field, in sunlight, among the few young trees set out to modify the bare facts--… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us; The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in, The priest hath… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
What do the few existing mystics still do? -- They more or less mold the raw chaos of already existing religion. But… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The relationship I have with my mother now, and photographing her in front of the grave, it opens up discussions, and dealings… — Jurgen Teller Copy Share Image
You'll come to my grave? To tell me your problems?" My problems? "Yes.' And you'll give me answers? "I'll give you what… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
