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“I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave--thank God for the quiet grave--O! I can feel the cold earth upon me--the daisies growing over me--O for this quiet--it will be my first.”

Feels Firsts I Can Earth Death Growing Cold Quiet Graves Thank God Daisies

Author:John Keats

“It appears to general observation, that revolutions create genius and talents; but those events do no more than bring them forward. There is existing in man, a mass of sense lying in a dormant state, and which, unless something excites it to action, will descend with him, in that condition, to the grave. As it is to the advantage of society that the whole of its faculties should be employed, the construction of government ought to be such as to bring forward, by a quiet and regular operation, all that extent of capacity which never fails to appear in revolutions.”

Source: Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution

“The grave's a fine and quiet place but none I think do finish their books from there.”

Thinking Book Fine Quiet Graves Quiet Place Nordstrom

Book:Dear genius: the letters of Ursula Nordstrom

Source: Dear genius: the letters of Ursula Nordstrom

“Is not short paine well borne, that brings long ease,And layes the soul to sleepe in quiet grave?Sleepe after toyle, port after stormie seas,Ease after warre, death after life does greatly please.”

Wells Long Doe Soul Sea Please Quiet Graves Ease Port Paine

Book:Spenser: Book II of the Faery Queen

Source: Spenser: Book II of the Faery Queen

“As the Christian's sorrows multiply, his patience grows, until, with sweet, unruffled quiet, he can confront the ills of life, and, though inwardly wincing, can calmly pursue his way to the restful grave, while his old, harsh voice is softly cadenced into sweetest melody, like the faint notes of an angel's whispered song. As patience deepens, charity and sympathy increase.”

Way Christian Song Grows Voice Sweet Sorrow Quiet Angel Increase Notes Charity Graves Pursue Melody Harsh Sweetest Restful

Author:George Horace Lorimer

“A grave is such a quiet place.”

Quiet Graves Quiet Place

Book:Early Poems

Source: Early Poems

“Always the idea of unbroken quiet broods around the grave. It is a port where the storms of life never beat, and the forms that have been tossed on its chafing waves lie quiet forevermore. There the child nestles as peacefully as ever it lay in its mother's arms, and the workman's hands lie still by his side, and the thinker's brain is pillowed in silent mystery, and the poor girl's broken heart is steeped in a balm that extracts its secret woe, and is in the keeping of a charity that covers all blame.”

“Evening is the delight of virtuous age; it seems an emblem of the tranquil close of busy life--serene, placid, and mild, with the impress of its great Creator stamped upon it; it spreads its quiet wings over the grave, and seems to promise that all shall be peace beyond it.”

Seems Age Promise Quiet Wings Busy Delight Creator Spread Graves Evening Virtuous Impress Serene Tranquil Busy Life Emblems Placid

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.”

Love Age Night Time Quiet Aging Lovely Graves Old Age Thee Birthday Serene Lapland

Author:William Wordsworth

“With a rasping cough, the vampire shakes its head. "It was you who called us. All of you, with your war. The roar of your cannons shook us from our quiet graves.”

War Quiet Graves Vampire Shakes Cannons

Book:Baltimore,: Or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire

Source: Baltimore,: Or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire

“I have no wish to talk nonsense." "If you did, it would be in such a grave, quiet manner, I should mistake it for sense.”

Ifs Should Would Be Wish Mistake Quiet Graves Nonsense

Book:Jane Eyre

Source: Jane Eyre

“There's no quiet place here on earth for our love, not in the village and not anywhere else, so I picture a grave, deep and narrow, in which we embrace as if clamped together, I bury my face against you, you yours against me, and no one will ever see us.”

Ifs Love Earth Together Faces Quiet Embrace Graves Village Our Love Quiet Place

Author:Franz Kafka

“Quiet through the grave go I; or else beneath the graves I lie”

Lying Quiet Graves

Book:Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem

Source: Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem

“Minutes, hours, days, months, and years, Pass'd over to the end they were created, Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave. Ah, what a life were this!”

Years Ends Time Hours White Minutes Hair Months Quiet Graves White Hair

Book:The Plays of Shakespeare: The Text Regulated by the Old Copies, and by the Recently Discovered Folio of 1632, Containing Early Manuscript Emendations

Source: The Plays of Shakespeare: The Text Regulated by the Old Copies, and by the Recently Discovered Folio of 1632, Containing Early Manuscript Emendations