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“There have been hours in my unhappy life, many of them, when the contemplation of death as the end of earthly sorrow - of the grave as a resting place for the tired and worn out body - has been pleasant to dwell upon.”

Has Beens Ends Body Hours Sorrow Tired Graves Unhappy Contemplation Pleasant Happy Life Worn Worn Out Unhappy Life

Book:Twelve Years a Slave

Source: Twelve Years a Slave

“BODY-SNATCHER, n. A robber of grave-worms. One who supplies the young physicians with that with which the old physicians have supplied the undertaker.”

Body Young Science Humour Graves Physicians Worms Supplies Robbers Undertaker

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“At my death paint my body with red paint and plunge it into fresh water to be restored back to life, otherwise my bones will be turned into stone and my joints into flint in my grave, but my spirit will rise”

Body Spirit Water Red Stones Paint Bones Graves Joints Plunge Fresh Water

Author:Crazy Horse

“Any political movement directed against any body of our fellow-citizens because of their religious creed is a grave offense against American principles and American institutions. It is a wicked thing either to support or oppose a man because of the creed he possesses. . . . Such a movement directly contravenes the spirit of the Constitution itself.”

Source: Fear God and Take Your Own Part

“Better to be always in a minority of one with God - branded as madman, incendiary, fanatic, heretic, infidel - frowned upon by "the powers that be," and mobbed by the populace - or consigned ignominiously to the gallows, like him whose "soul is marching on," though his "body lies mouldering in the grave," or burnt to ashes at the stake like Wickliffe, or nailed to the cross like him who "gave himself for the world," - in defence of the RIGHT, than like Herod, having the shouts of a multitude crying, "It is the voice of a god, and not of a man!"”

Men World Soul Body Lying Voice Cry Crosses Graves Minorities Stakes Ashes Multitudes Defence Fanatics Madmen Heretic Infidel Branded Gallows Marching On Herod

Author:William Lloyd Garrison

“Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols.”

Soul Body Heaven Middle Fame Graves Verses

Author:John Donne