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«Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light.»
«Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave.»
Author: James Thomson (Poet) | Keywords: cruel, grave, hungry, The Grave
«If I were a grave-digger or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment»
«Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.»
«If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.»
«Here, on this side of the grave,Here, should we labor and love.»
Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox | Keywords: grave, The Grave
«Don't dig your grave with your knife and fork.»
Author: English Proverb | Keywords: dig, fork, grave, knife
«Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth»
Author: French Proverb | Keywords: digs, glutton, gluttons, grave, teeth
«Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave»
«For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two o?clock on that July afternoon in 1863, the brigades are in position behind the rail fence, the guns are laid and ready in the woods and the furled flags are already loosened to break out and Pickett himself with his long oiled ringlets and his hat in one hand probably and his sword in the other looking up the hill waiting for Longstreet to give the word and it's all in the balance, it hasn't happened yet, it hasn't even begun yet, it not only hasn't begun yet but there is still time for it not to begin against that position and those circumstances which made more men than Garnett and Kemper and Armistead and Wilcox look grave yet it's going to begin, we all know that, we have come too far with too much at stake and that moment doesn't need even a fourteen-year-old boy to think This time. Maybe this time with all this much to lose and all this much to gain: Pennsylvania, Maryland, the world, the golden dome of Washington itself to crown with desperate and unbelievable victory the desperate gamble, the cast made two years ago.... William Faulkner, Intruder In The Dust»

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