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A few more moons, a few more winters, and not one of all the mighty hosts that once filled this broad land or that now roam in fragmentary bands through these vast solitudes will remain to weep over the tombs of a people once as powerful and as hopeful as your own. But why should we repine? Why should I murmur at the fate of my people? Tribes are made up of individuals and are no better than they. Men come and go like the waves of the sea. A tear, a tamanamus, a dirge, and they are gone from our
Speech 1854 -
The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
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After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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These are the tombs of such as cannot die.
The Library (1781) -
Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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When Abraham Lincoln was shoveled into
the tombs, he forgot the copperheads and
the assassin... in the dust, in the cool tombs.Cool Tombs (1918) -
When Abraham Lincoln was shovelled into the tombs, he forgot the copperheads and the assassin... in the dust, in the cool tombs.
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