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Their Graves Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but…
- When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. . . . How beautifully they go to their graves! How…
- I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily…
- The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and…
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- In every grave on earth's green sward is a tiny seed of the resurrection life of Jesus Christ, and that seed cannot… — Unknown Author
- Gone are the living, but the dead remain, And not neglected; for a hand unseen, Scattering its bounty like a summer rain,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes… — Henry David Thoreau
- With the tears a Land hath shed. Their graves should ever be green. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
- Our cheer goes back to them, the valiant dead! Laurels and roses on their graves to-day, lilies and laurels over them we… — Richard Hovey
- In those days, our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all, and thought to include all; but now, to aid in… — Abraham Lincoln
- Probably no strychnine has sent as many husbands into their graves as mealtime scolding has, and nothing has driven more men into… — M.F.K. Fisher
- As I go into a cemetery I like to think of the time when the dead shall rise from their graves. ...… — Dwight L. Moody
- I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who… — Charles Dickens
- Dennis Wise, Vinnie Jones and John Fashanu must be turning in their graves — Carlton Palmer
- You stand now between anarchy and law. The Police have done their duty. Let the jury have the same courage so that… — Jason Epstein
- Harder still it has proved to rule the dragon Money... A whole generation adopted false principles, and went to their graves in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson