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Letter "B" » burial
«All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial.»
«And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation over him.»
«For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.»
«If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.»
«On a day of burial there is no perspective -- for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was -- to tear himself away, as he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is leaving and whom you cannot detain.»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
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«POCKET, n. The cradle of motive and the grave of conscience. In woman this organ is lacking; so she acts without motive, and her conscience, denied burial, remains ever alive, confessing the sins of others.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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burial, confessing, cradle, Cradle To The Grave, lacking, organ
«HYENA, n. A beast held in reverence by some oriental nations from its habit of frequenting at night the burial-places of the dead. But the medical student does that.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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burial, frequenting, hyena, The Oriental
«Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.»
«Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial»
«Cry 'Havoc', and let slip the dogs of war, that this foul deed shall smell above the earth with carrion men, groaning for burial»
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