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• That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

  Dorothy Parker

  Death, Tombstone, Cutting

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.125, Penguin

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• An angel visited the green earth, and took a flower away.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Flower, Angel, Earth

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Voices Of The Night: The Reaper And The Flowers”

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• In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Sad, Sympathy, Stars

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2414, Library of Alexandria

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• For they can conquer who believe they can.

  John Dryden

  Confidence, Believe, Literature

  "The Works of Virgil".

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• Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.

  Joseph Conrad

  Life, Tombstone, Sleep

  Joseph Conrad, Laurence Davies, Gene M. Moore (2007). “The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad”, p.116, Cambridge University Press

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• Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.

  William Blake

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Headstone

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• What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.

  Joseph Addison

  Giving, Lost, Remains

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1822). “The Spectator: With Notes and Illustrations. In Six Volumes”, p.270

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• Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Stars, Twilight, Night

  Anne of Green Gables ch. 17 (1908)

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• This Grave contains all that was Mortal of a Young English Poet Who on his Death Bed in the Bitterness of his Heart at the Malicious Power of his Enemies Desired these words to be engraved on his Tomb Stone "Here lies One Whose Name was writ in Water."

  John Keats

  Lying, Heart, Names

  Epitaph for himself, in Richard Monckton Milnes 'Life, Letters and Literary Remains of John Keats' (1848) vol. 2, p. 91.

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• Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Music, Memories, Voice

  'To - : One word is too often profaned'

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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

  Writing, Character, Men

  Speech on his trial and conviction for high treason (September, 1803); reported in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 230), 1922.

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• Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of man, without his vices. This praise, which would be unmeaning flattery if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just tribute to the memory of Botswain, a dog.

  Lord Byron

  Dog, Memories, Men

  George Gordon Byron, “Epitaph To A Dog”

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• I picture my epitaph: 'Here lies Paul Newman, who died a failure because his eyes turned brown.

  Paul Newman

  Lying, Eye, Brown

  "An actor of true genius, and a man of great decency" by Philip French, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2008.

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• So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Inspirational, Tattoo, Time

  The Great Gatsby ch. 9 (1925).

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• And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.

  Oscar Wilde

  Tombstone, Men, Long

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (1999). “The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings”, p.185, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Death is not a foe, but an inevitable adventure.

  Oliver Lodge

  Adventure, Memorial, Headstone

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• Sleep undisturbed within this peaceful shrine,
  Till angels wake thee with a note like thine.

  Samuel Johnson

  Sleep, Angel, Peaceful

  "The reader's Johnson: a representative selection from his writings".

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• Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!

  Virginia Woolf

  Death, Tombstone, Memorial

  The Waves (1931)

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• To live in the hearts of others is not to die

  Thomas Campbell

  Heart, Headstone, Gravestone

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• The song is ended, but the melody lingers on.

  Irving Berlin

  Positive, Music, Death

  Title of song (1927)

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• Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

  John Milton

  Death, Keys, Eternity Of Life

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• If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

  H. L. Mencken

  Girl, Memories, Kindness

  Smart Set, Dec. 1921

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• The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Tombstone, People, 30th Birthday

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• Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.

  Paul Eldridge

  Lying, Reading, Resurrection

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