“ A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble. ”
- Charles Haddon Spurgeon- Copy
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“ But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for, Is their monument to-day, and for aye. ”
- Thomas Dunn English- Copy
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“ Thou can'st not die. Here thou art more than safeWhere every book is thy epitaph. ”
- Henry Vaughan- Copy
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“ I used to want the words "She tried" on my tombstone. Now I want "She did it". ”
- Katherine Dunham- Copy
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“ Write on my gravestone: "Infidel, Traitor." — infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people. ”
- Wendell Phillips- Copy
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“ Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead. ”
- Anna Cummins- Copy
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“ When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life. ”
- Gloria Swanson- Copy
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“ The poet's scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. The Genius survives; all else is claimed by death. ”
- Edmund Spenser- Copy
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“ Soldiers, forty centuries are looking down upon you from these pyramids. ”
- Napoleon- Copy
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“ Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man's greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human beings are linked. ”
- Vincente Fox- Copy
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“ I used to have nightmares that they would put 'He played Ted' on my tombstone. ”
- Keanu Reeves- Copy
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“ Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavur Fellowship, 1951 One can give without loving, but one cannot love without giving. ”
- Amy Carmichael- Copy
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“ Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433 One can say: "I will, but my body does not obey me"; but not: "My will does not obey me". ”
- St. Augustine- Copy
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“ The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like Heaven is bent, An early but enduring monument, Came, veiling all the lightnings of his song In sorrow. ”
- Percy Bysshe Shelley- Copy
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“ If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on the headstone might well be: "It seemed a good idea at the time.". ”
- Rebecca West- Copy
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“ Let 's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs. - King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 2. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'. ”
- Earl Weaver- Copy
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“ Let there be no inscription upon my tomb. Let no man write my epitaph. No man can write my epitaph. I am here ready to die. I am not allowed to vindicate my character; and when I am prevented from vindicating myself, let no man dare calumniate me. Let my character and motives repose in obscurity and peace, till other times and other men can do them justice. ”
- Robert Emmet- Copy
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“ You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to rest, Where man can boast that he has trod On him that was "the scourge of God. ”
- Edward Everett- Copy
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“ O summer day beside the joyous sea! O summer day so wonderful and white, So full of gladness and so full of pain! Forever and forever shalt thou be To some the gravestone of a dead delight, To some the landmark of a new domain. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
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“ Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay. One must take the journey unburdened, sweetly, without any effort, never stopping at any shrine, at any monument, or for any hero, social or religious — alone with beauty and love. ”
- Jiddu Krishnamurti- Copy
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“ This year our Memorial Day activities are especially poignant as The Greatest Generation joins us to dedicate the World War II Memorial on the grounds of the National Mall in Washington, DC The World War II Memorial will stand before us as a constant reminder of the great sacrifices and triumphs of a very special class of Americans. ”
- Lane Evans- Copy
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“ Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set. ”
- Harold Macmillan- Copy
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