"Divine ashes are better then earthly meale."
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"We can die by it, if not live by love, And if unfit for tombs and hearse Our legend be, it will be fit for verse; And if no peace of chronicle we prove, We'll build in sonnet pretty rooms; As well a well wrought urne becomes The greatest ashes, as half-acre tombs."
"Ashes to ashes. Garage sale to garage sale,” I said."
"God scorns and mocks the devil, in setting under his very nose a poor, weak, human creature, mere dust and ashes, yet endowed with the firstfruits of the Spirit, against whom the devil can do nothing."
"This is hard... Never said it would be easy. Nothing good ever is.' -- Josie & Ash"