The House of Dust (1916 - 1917)
“When I am dead and opened, you shall find Calais lying in my head.”
Mary I of England (1516–1558) Queen of England and Ireland
Said during her final illness, referring to England's loss of Calais to France.
Raphael Holinshed, The Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland, vol. III, page 1160 (1587).
Henry Drummond (1851–1897) Scottish evangelist, writer and lecturer
Variant: You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
André Maurois (1885–1967) French writer
Quoted by Will Durant in On the Meaning of Life http://books.google.com/books?id=XH5HAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Either+the+soul+is+immortal+and+we+shall+not+die+or+it+perishes+with+the+flesh+and+we+shall+not+know+that+we+are+dead+Live+then+as+if+you+were+eternal%22&pg=PA53#v=onepage (1932) <br class="br">Context: What shall we know of our death? Either the soul is immortal and we shall not die, or it perishes with the flesh and we shall not know that we are dead. Live, then, as if you were eternal, and do not believe that your life has changed merely because it seems proved that the Earth is empty. You do not live in the Earth, you live in yourself.
Martin Cecil, 7th Marquess of Exeter (1909–1988) Marquess of Exeter
Thus It Is, 1989, p. 164
As of a Trumpet, On Eagle's Wings, Thus It Is
Cyrano de Bergerac (1619–1655) French novelist, dramatist, scientist and duelist
Sun-being to Cyrano
The Other World (1657)
Cornstalk (1720–1777) Native American in the American Revolution
To his son Elinipsico as a mob approached them in Point Pleasant (10 November 1777), as quoted in "Cornstalk, the Shawanee Chief" by Rev. William Henry Foote, in The Southern Literary Messenger Vol. 16, Issue 9, (September 1850) pp. 533-540 http://victorian.fortunecity.com/rothko/420/aniyuntikwalaski/cornstalk.html
William Morris (1834–1896) author, designer, and craftsman
Love is Enough (1872), Song VI: Cherish Life that Abideth
Context: Live on, for Love liveth, and earth shall be shaken
By the wind of his wings on the triumphing morning,
When the dead, and their deeds that die not shall awaken,
And the world's tale shall sound in your trumpet of warning,
And the sun smite the banner called Scorn of the Scorning,
And dead pain ye shall trample, dead fruitless desire,
As ye wend to pluck out the new world from the fire.
Samuel Adams (1722–1803) American statesman, Massachusetts governor, and political philosopher
We have appealed to Heaven for the justice of our cause, and in Heaven we have placed our trust. [...] We shall never be abandoned by Heaven while we act worthy of its aid and protection.
addressing a meeting of delegates to the Continental Congress, assembled at Yorktown, Pennsylvania, September 1777 ; as quoted in The Life and Public Services of Samuel Adams, Volume 2, by William Vincent Wells; Little, Brown, and Company; Boston, 1865 ; pp. 492-493
