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Having been the discoverer of many splendid things, he is said to have asked his friends and relations that, after his death, they should place on his tomb a cylinder enclosing a sphere, writing on it the proportion of the containing solid to that which is contained.

Wir mussen wissen. Wir werden wissen. We must know. We will know. Inscribed on his tomb in Gilttingen.

Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.

A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.

Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom,_x000D__x000D_On thee shall press no ponderous tomb;_x000D__x000D_But on thy turf shall roses rear_x000D__x000D_Their leaves, the earliest of the year.

Love is the only bow on Life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and the Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance on the quiet tomb. It is the mother of Art—inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart— builder of every home—kindler of every fire on every hearth. It was the first to dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody, for Music is the voice of Love.

Good night, then - sleep to gather strength for the morning. For the morning will come. Brightly will it shine on the brave and true, kindly on all who suffer for the cause, glorious upon the tombs of heroes. Thus will shine the dawn.

And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldier's tomb, and beauty weeps the brave.

It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under some massive tomb, thereby to shun the strokes of fortune.

I am in the night. There is a being who has gone away and carried the heavens with her. Oh! to be laid side by side in the same tomb, hand clasped in hand, and from time to time, in the darkness, to caress a finger gently, that would suffice for my eternity.

As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.

Tomb, thou shalt not hold Him longer; Death is strong, but Life is stronger; Stronger than the dark, the light; Stronger than the wrong, the right; Faith and Hope triumphant say Christ will rise on Easter Day.

Love, which is lust, is the Lamp in the Tomb._x000D__x000D_Love, which is lust, is the Call from the Gloom._x000D__x000D_Love, which is lust, is the Main of Desire._x000D__x000D_Love, which is lust, is the Centric Fire._x000D__x000D_So man and woman will keep their trust,_x000D__x000D_Till the very Springs of the Sea run dust._x000D__x000D_Yea, each with the other will lose and win,_x000D__x000D_Till the very Sides of the Grave fall in._x000D__x000D_For the strife of Love's the abysmal strife,_x000D__x000D_And the word of Love is the Word of Life._x000D__x000D_And they that go with the Word unsaid,_x000D__x000D_Though they seem of the living, are damned and dead.

Crowns have their compass-length of days their date-_x000D__x000D_Triumphs their tomb-felicity, her fate-_x000D__x000D_Of nought but earth can earth make us partaker,_x000D__x000D_But knowledge makes a king most like his Maker.

No real estate is permanently valuable but the grave.

The Revelation of Sonmi 451 To be is to be perceived, and so to know thyself is only possible through the eyes of the other. The nature of our immortal lives is in the consequences of our words and deeds, that go on and are pushing themselves throughout all time. - Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb, we are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

Brothers, he who dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded with the dawn.

Have you heard of the legends of sleeping kings? The legends that heroes like Llewellyn and Glendower and Arthur aren’t really dead, but are instead sleeping in tombs, waiting to be woken?

Christianity, unlike any other religion in the world, begins with catastrophe and defeat. Sunshine religions and psychological inspirations collapse in calamity and wither in adversity. But the Life of the Founder of Christianity, having begun with the Cross, ends with the empty tomb and victory.

Blinded by the opaque veil of mortality, her eyes are always sealed, like a tomb She wants to know- wants to feel that fire, the brightness of the moon So she searches for light, only to realize its in her, like an ember equipped to ignite.

From Santi's earthly tomb with demon's hole, 'Cross Rome the mystic elements unfold. The path of light is laid, the sacred test, Let angels guide you on your lofty quest.