Embalmed Quotes
18 quotes by 18 authors
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What a lesson, indeed, is all history and all life to the folly and fruitlessness of pride! The Egyptian kings had their embalmed bodies preserved…
— Edwin Percy Whipple
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Of what use are the great number of petrifactions, of different species, shape and form which are dug up by naturalists? Perhaps the collection of…
— Carl Linnaeus
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One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.
— Dustin Hoffman
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The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive. The more prolonged…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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If time, so fleeting, must like humans die, let it be filled with good food and good talk, and then embalmed in the perfumes of…
— M.F.K. Fisher
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We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return - sending back our embalmed hearts only…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The risk of the Holocaust is not that it will be forgotten, but that it will be embalmed and surrounded by monuments and used to…
— Zygmunt Bauman
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Books are embalmed minds.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Books have always been to me like a kind of embalmed mind. The dead may be scattered, and who can find them, but their voices…
— Laurel Lea
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I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet.
— John Keats
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Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are the breathings of…
— William Ellery Channing
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What are our conductors giving us year after year? Only fresh corpses. Over these beautifully embalmed sonatas, toccatas, symphonies and operas the public dance the…
— Henry Miller
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A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such it…
— Penelope Fitzgerald
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From his soft fur, golden and brown, Goes out so sweet a scent, one night I might have been embalmed in it By giving him…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Theta crashed next to them on the thick zebra-skin rug. “I’m embalmed.†“Potted and splificated?†“Ossified to the gills. Time for night-night.
— Libba Bray
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Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of…
— Florence King
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A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond
— John Milton
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He seemed embalmed in hatred.
— Ted Morgan
Who Wrote These Embalmed Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 18 Embalmed Quotes as follows: