#grave

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion. ↗

— Thomas de Quincey

#deals #even #grave #laugh #long

I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#cotton #drudge #give #give me #grave

Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green. ↗

— Torquato Tasso

#grave #green #grey #his #locks

The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come. ↗

— John Jewel

#correction #counsel #end #examples #full

My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation. ↗

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#confront #courage #determination #discipline #grave

A man who would not love his father's grave is worse than a wild animal. ↗

— Chief Joseph

#father #grave #his #love #man

No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#america #barred #battle #been #colored

Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave. ↗

— Francis Scott Key

#could #flight #footsteps #foul #gloom

Press on! for in the grave there is no work and no device. Press on! while yet you may. ↗

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

#grave #may #press #while #work

Kennedy had been assassinated a month or so before. So we walked to the grave of John Kennedy and ended our walking symbolically at the Arlington National Cemetery. ↗

— Satish Kumar

#assassinated #been #before #cemetery #ended