"If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise."
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"Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything."
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"marriage is usually considered the grave, and not the cradle of love."
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"I shall be as secret as the grave."
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"The grave and the image are equally links with the irrecoverable and symbols for the unimaginable."
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"Peace is in the grave."
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"A grave, on which to rest from singing?"
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"Our hearts connect with lots of folks in a lifetime but most of us will go to our graves with no experience of true love."
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"The principle which prompts to save is the desire of bettering our conditiona desire which?comes with us from the womb and never leaves us till we go into the grave."
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"The British people, being subject to fogs, require grave statesmen."
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"Maybe when I get in the grave, things will be beautiful."
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"I got this grave yard woman."
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"Soldiers' graves are the greatest preachers of peace."
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"The tomb in Palestine Is not the porch of spirits lingering. It is the grave of Jesus, where he lay."
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"I would that I were low laid in my grave. I am not worth this coil that's made for me."
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"Either our history shall with full mouth Speak freely of our acts, or else our grave, Like Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless mouth, Not worshipped with a waxen epitaph."
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"One that would peep and botanize Upon his mother's grave."
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"Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity."
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"Why has my motley diary no jokes? Because it is a soliloquy and every man is grave alone."
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"All that lies betwixt the cradle and the grave is uncertain."
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