"Many good purposes lie in the churchyard." — Philip Massinger

More Churchyard Quotes

This quote is filed under Churchyard Quotes, one of 20 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• The churchyard is the market place where all things are rated at their true value, and those who are approaching… — Richard Baxter
• Truly the universe is full of ghosts, not sheeted churchyard spectres, but the inextinguishable elements of individual life, which having… — H. Rider Haggard
• When the friends we love the best Lie in their churchyard bed, We must not cry too bitterly Over the… — Cecil Frances Alexander
• ROMEO to BALTHASAR But if thou, jealous, dost return to pry In what I further shall intend to do, By… — William Shakespeare
• Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard - both as regards the… — Benjamin Jowett
• Jane Francklyne, born in 1565, had lived for less than a month. She left very little behind. She was buried… — Jill Lepore
• Steel True, Blade Straight *In 1955, Doyle's family sold Windlesham, which was turned into a hotel. The bodies of Conan… — Arthur Conan Doyle
• Many people have heard the remarkable example of devotion involving a Skye terrier dog who worked for a Scottish shepherd… — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
• I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tomb of the Capulets. — Edmund Burke
• And when a whirl-winde hath blowne the dust of the Churchyard into the Church, and man sweeps out the dust… — John Donne
• The clouds were flying fast, the wind was coming up in gusts, banging some neighboring shutters that had broken loose,… — Charles Dickens
• When stuck years ago in a job I hated, my only friend was the public bench. As the tedious mornings… — Tom Hodgkinson

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