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“True, more than a half of the green graves in the Grafton cemetery are marked "Unknown," and sometimes it occurs that one thinks of the contradiction involved in "honoring the memory" of him of whom no memory remains to honor; but the attempt seems to do no great harm to the living, even to the logical.”

Thinking Sometimes Seems Memories Half Honor Involved Remains Green Harm Graves Contradiction Logical Cemetery No Memory

Book:Shadows of Blue & Gray: The Civil War Writings of Ambrose Bierce

Source: Shadows of Blue & Gray: The Civil War Writings of Ambrose Bierce

“If so men's memories not a monument be, None shalt thou have. Warm hearts, and not cold stone, Must mark thy grave, or thou shalt lie, unknown. Marbles keep not themselves; how then, keep thee?”

Ifs Men Heart Lying Memories Cold Stones Mark Warm Graves Thee Monument Marble Warm Heart

Author:John Vance Cheney

“a daughter's love for a kind father ... is mixed with the careless happiness of childhood, which can never come again. Into the father's grave the daughter, sometimes a gray-haired woman, lays away forever the little pet names and memories which to all the rest of the world are but foolishness.”

World Kind Littles Sometimes Father Names Memories Forever Childhood Daughter Lays Graves Pet Gray Foolishness Careless Pet Names

Book:Anne: A Novel

Source: Anne: A Novel

“I didn't know I had this many fans in Puerto Rico. I'm going to carry this memory to my grave.”

Knows Memories Fans Graves Puerto Rico Rico

Author:Allen Iverson

“The memories which peaceful country scenes call up, are not of this world, nor of its thoughts and hopes. Their gentle influence may teach us how to weave fresh garlands for the graves of those we loved: may purify our thoughts, and bear down before it old enmity and hatred; but beneath all this, there lingers, in the least reflective mind, a vague and half-formed consciousness of having held such feelings long before, in some remote and distant time, which calls up solemn thoughts of distant times to come, and bends down pride and worldliness beneath it.”

Source: Oliver Twist

“The grave is a crucible where memory is purified; we only remember a dead friend by those qualities which make him regretted.”

Remember Memories Quality Graves Crucible

Author:Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

“Night is the time to weep,To wet with unseen tearsThose graves of memory where sleepThe joys of other years.”

Years Joy Night Memories Graves Wet Unseen

Book:The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume

Source: The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume