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Letter "G" » Graves
«The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving.»
Author: H. U. Westermayer
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Keywords:
aside,
Graves,
huts,
impoverish,
impoverished,
impoverishing,
nevertheless,
pilgrims,
set aside,
thanksgiving,
Thanksgiving Day
«The bitterest tear shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone»
«The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.»
«The greatest tragedy in America is not the destruction of our natural resources, though that tragedy is great. The truly great tragedy is the destruction of our human resources by our failure to fully utilize our abilities, which means that most men and women go to their graves with their music still in them.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Humorist,
Physician,
Poet,
Professor,
Writer)
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Keywords:
abilities,
destruction,
Graves,
Human resources,
In America,
natural ability,
natural resource,
natural resources,
resources,
utilize,
utilized,
utilizing
«We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.»
«Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy with the spirit which may still animate their clay. Patriotism is a maggot in their heads.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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Essayist,
Philosopher,
Poet)
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Keywords:
animate,
animates,
clay,
Graves,
No self,
patriotic,
patriotism,
self respect,
soil,
sympathy
«The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and antiquaries chiefly, but living poetry like the leaves of a tree, which precede flowers and fruit / not a fossil earth, but a living earth; compared with whose great central life all animal and vegetable life is merely parasitic. Its throes will heave our exuviate from their graves.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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Essayist,
Philosopher,
Poet)
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Keywords:
antiquary,
chiefly,
dead tree,
exuviate,
fossil,
fossils,
Graves,
heave,
parasitic,
precede,
strata,
stratum,
throe,
throes,
vegetable
«With spots quadrangular of diamond form,/ Ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, / And spades, the emblem of untimely graves.»