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«As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to bed with whom.»
«A best seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent»
«A rainbow and a cuckoo's song / May never come together again; / May never come / This side the tomb.»
«He that unburied lies wants not his hearse, For unto him a tomb's the Universe»
Author: Thomas Browne, Sr. | Keywords: hearse, tomb, unburied
«And the names he loved to hearHave been carved for many a yearOn the tomb.»
Author: William Dean Howells | Keywords: tomb
«And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, / And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: cloth, hewn, rock and, rolled, sepulchre, The Rock, tomb
«And when his disciples heard of it, they came and took up his corpse, and laid it in a tomb.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: corpse, his disciples, tomb
«EPITAPH, n. An inscription on a tomb, showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect. Following is a touching example:Here lie the bones of Parson Platt, Wise, pious, humble and all that, Who showed us life as all should live it; Let that be said --and God forgive it!»
«A tomb now suffices him (Alexander) for whom the whole world was not sufficient»
Author: Greek proverb | Keywords: Alexander, suffices, tomb
«Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb»

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