Best Graves Wisdom
1109 Graves quotes by 775 unique authors
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My father used to say, "Superior people never make long visits, have to be shown Longfellows grave, or the glass flowers at Harvard."
— Marianne Moore
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As I go into a cemetery I like to think of the time when the dead shall rise from their graves. ... Thank God, our…
— Dwight L. Moody
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Man made one grave mistake: in answer to vaguely reformist and humanitarian agitation he admitted women to politics and the professions. The conservatives who saw…
— Germaine Greer
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In the isolation of his clear, cold intellect, the sceptic abides in a glacial and spectral universe. No glow from the affections lights up the…
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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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…
— Alan Brennert
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Was it for this the wild geese spread The gray wing upon every tide; For this that all that blood was shed, For this. Edward…
— William Butler Yeats
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Not she with trait'rous kiss her Saviour stung, Not she denied him with unholy tongue; She, while apostles shrank, could danger brave, Last at his…
— Unknown Author
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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…
— John Keats
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Love: a grave mental disease.
— Plato
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...he who goes down to the grave does not return.
— Moses
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Love is as strong as death; its jealousy as unyielding as the grave. It burns like a blazing fire; like a mighty flame. Many waters…
— Solomon
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Half-instructed confessors have done my soul great harm; for I could not always have such learned ones as I would have desired. They certainly did…
— Teresa of Avila
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And here I arrive at my point. The point is that everyone has a different dream. The point is that it is a grave mistake…
— Rachel Kushner
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I have had vegan Thanksgiving of tofurkey and soy gravy. And it's not to say that Thanksgiving will ever justify the genocide of the Native…
— Hari Kondabolu
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I will die here where I have walked. And I will walk here, though I am in my grave. I will walk here until the…
— Charles Dickens
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I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy…
— Charles Dickens
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We are not deceived by their pretenses to piety. We have seen their kind before. They are the heirs of all the murderous ideologies of…
— George W. Bush
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For more than half a century, during which kingdoms and empires have fallen, this Union has stood unshaken. The patriots who formed it have long…
— Zachary Taylor
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The trade agreement which I had the privilege of signing with your Prime Minister last autumn is tangible evidence of the desire of the people…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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But I think the American people expect more from us than cries of indignation and attack. The times are too grave, the challenge too urgent,…
— John F. Kennedy
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Many women are now holding posts of grave responsibility in city and country and state and nation, and their number must be greatly increased.
— Herbert Hoover
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The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see…
— Herbert Hoover
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In any open question, we should argue from what we do know to what we do not know. We do know that fervent legends and…
— Dan Barker
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I was afraid of last place, ... There were a lot of fears. Below .500 - I never thought I'd see that here. Then, losing…
— Felipe Alou
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A grave, on which to rest from singing?
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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