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• In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.

  William Cowper

  Buried

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• Crowns have their compass-length of days their date-
  Triumphs their tomb-felicity, her fate-
  Of nought but earth can earth make us partaker,
  But knowledge makes a king most like his Maker.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Knowledge, Fate

  William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1858). “Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems”, p.171

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• And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie,
  That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.

  John Milton

  Kings, Lying, Wish To Die

  John Milton (1874). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: Edited with Introductions, Notes and an Essay on Milton's English by David Masson”, p.414

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• A man crawls into a tomb to die. A boy crawls in to live. You think that's chance?

  Michelle Paver

  Boys, Men, Thinking

  Michelle Paver (2012). “The Outsiders (Gods and Warriors Book 1)”, p.27, Penguin UK

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• I broke into shakespeare's tomb and stole his remains, grinded the bones, smoked it, then got in the game

  Nas

  Games, Nasty, Bones

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• In practice it undermines the transformation of faith. When Christians concentrate their time and energy on their own separate spheres and their own institutions-whether all-absorbing megachurches, Christian yellow-page businesses, or womb-to-tomb Christian cultural ghettoes-they lose the outward thrusting, transforming power that is at the heart of the gospel. Instead of being 'salt' and 'light' -images of a permeating and penetrating action-Christians and Christian institutions become soft and vulnerable to corruption from within.

  Os Guinness

  Christian, Heart, Practice

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• On that Sunday morning the first thing that impressed the people who approached the tomb was the unusual position of the one and a half to two ton stone that had been lodged in front of the doorway.

  Josh McDowell

  Easter, Morning, Sunday

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• A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

  Alexander the Great

  Death, Acceptance, Political

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• Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.

  Francis Bacon

  Forever, Spiders, Amber

  Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1858). “The Works of Francis Bacon: Translations of the philosophical works”, p.320

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• At its very core the story of Easter has nothing to do with angelic announcements or empty tombs. It has nothing to do with time periods, whether three days, forty days, or fifty days. It has nothing to do with resuscitated bodies that appear and disappear or that finally exit this world in a heavenly ascension.

  John Shelby Spong

  Easter, Religion, Three

  John Shelby Spong (2009). “Resurrection: Myth or Reality?”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• At that moment his soul is fuller of the tomb and him who lies there than of the altar and Him of whom it speaks. Such stages have to be gone through, I believe, by all young and brave souls, who must win their way through hero-worship to the worship of Him who is the King and Lord of heroes.

  Thomas Hughes

  Kings, Lying, Hero

  Thomas Hughes (2011). “Tom Brown's School Days”, p.334, The Floating Press

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• When our souls shall leave this dwelling, the glory of one fair and virtuous action is above all the 'scutcheons on our tomb, or silken banners over us.

  James Shirley

  Dwelling, Soul, Action

  James Shirley (1833). “The Dramatic Works and Poems of James Shirley, Now First Collected: The grateful servant. The traitor. Love's cruelty. Love in a maze. The bird in a cage. Hyde Park”, p.174

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• No tabloid will ever print the startling news that the mummified body of Jesus of Nazareth has been discovered in old Jerusalem. Christians have no carefully embalmed body enclosed in a glass case to worship. Thank God, we have an empty tomb. The glorious fact that the empty tomb proclaims to us is that life for us does not stop when death comes. Death is not a wall, but a door.

  Peter Marshall

  Christian, Jesus, Wall

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• Fame is a revenue payable only to our ghosts; and to deny ourselves all present satisfaction, or to expose ourselves to so much hazard for this, were as great madness as to starve ourselves, or fight desperately for food, to be laid on our tombs after our death.

  Henry Mackenzie

  Fighting, Hazards, Satisfaction

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• This living hand, now warm and capable Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold And in the icy silence of the tomb, So haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nights That thou would wish thine own heart dry of blood, So in my veins red life might stream again, And thou be conscience-calm'd. See, here it is-- I hold it towards you.

  John Keats

  Dream, Heart, Night

  'This living hand, now warm and capable' (written 1819)

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• Science fiction properly conceived, like all serious fiction, however funny, is a way of trying to describe what is in fact going on, what people actually do and feel, how people relate to everything else in this vast sack, this belly of the universe, this womb of things to be and tomb of things that were, this unending story.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  People, Trying, Way

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.170, Grove Press

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• Exile: A tomb in which you can get mail.

  Madame de Stael

  Mail, Exile

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• I would argue that the truth of Easter does not depend on whether there was an empty tomb, or whether anything happened to the body of Jesus. ... I do not see the Christian tradition as exclusively true, or the Bible as the unique and infallible revelation of God. ... It makes no historical sense to say, 'Jesus was killed for the sins of the world.' ... I am one of those Christians who does not believe in the virgin birth, nor in the star of Bethlehem, nor in the journeys of the wisemen, nor in the shepherds coming to the manger, as facts of history.

  Marcus Borg

  Christian, Jesus, Easter

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• The lobbies of the new hotels and the Pan American Building exhale a chill as from the unopened Pharaonic tombs... And in their marble labyrinths there is an evil presence that hates warmth and sunlight.

  Russell Baker

  Hate, Evil, Labyrinth

  Russell Baker (1964). “No Cause for Panic”

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• One cannot conceive of grander burial than that which mighty mountains bend, crack and shatter to make. Or a nobler tomb than the great upper basin of Denali.

  Hudson Stuck

  Mountain, Cracks, Burial

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• We've voted in a government that's rotting at the core, Appointing Godless Judges who throw reason out the door, Too soft to place a killer in a well deserved tomb, But brave enough to kill a baby before he leaves the womb.

  Roy Moore

  Baby, Government, Doors

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• We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.

  Clarence Darrow

  Men, Despair, Prison

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.90, Lulu.com

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• All flesh is grass. and all its glory fades
  Like the fair flower dishevell'd in the wind;
  Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream;
  The man we celebrate must find a tomb,
  And we that worship him, ignoble graves.

  William Cowper

  Death, Dream, Flower

  William Cowper (1856). “The task, Table talk, and other poems: With critical observations of various authors on his genius and character, and notes, critical and illustrative”, p.186

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• we can surmount the anger we feel. To find oneself like a young tree inside a tomb is to discover the power to crack the tomb and grow up to any height.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Growing Up, Anger, Tree

  ELIZABETH BOWEN (1935). “The House in Paris”

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• Does God care if I'm sad? Look at the tear-streaked face of Jesus as he stands near Lazarus's tomb.

  Max Lucado

  Jesus, Tears, Doe

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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