"We are given to the great, for great purpose, to great ends. We are given to the grave, for grave purposes, to grave ends."
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"I regard untouchability as such a grave sin as to warrant divine chastisement."
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"The English peace is the peace of the grave."
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"Integration will not bring a man back from the grave."
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"Vanity of vanities… all is vanity.’ You kill yourself to get to the grave. Especially you kill yourself to get to the grave before you die; and the name of the grave is ‘success’, the name of that grave is hullabullo boom boom horseshit."
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"A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul."
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"Quiet through the grave go I; or else beneath the graves I lie"
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"A little time, and thou shalt close thy eyes; and him who has attended thee to thy grave, another soon will lament."
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"All roads end at the grave, which is the gate to nothingness."
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"For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them."
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"I had rather be in my grave than in my present situation, I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world; and yet they charge me with wanting to be a king."
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"[T]he cradle is shallower than the grave."
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"The grave will fall in upon him who digs it."
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"If you will not try, you will go to your grave with your song still inside you."
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"Having reached the term of his natural life"; Mwould it not be truer to say, Having reached the term of his unnatural life?"
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"For the most part, the best man's spirit makes a fearful sprite to haunt his grave."
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"There have been some nations who could do nothing but construct tombs, and these are the only traces which they have left. They are the heathen."
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"Ambition's cradle oftenest is its grave"
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"The living grave of crime."
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"To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts."
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