“Here, on this side of the grave,
Here, should we labor and love.”
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919) American author and poet
Here and Now
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“There is no safety this side of the grave”
Source: Stranger in a Strange Land
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Felicia Hemans (1793–1835) English poet
The Graves of a Household http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/hemans/records/graves.html, st. 1.
Cecil Frances Alexander (1818–1895) British hymn-writer and poet
Hymn: The Burial of Moses http://www.bethanyipc.org.sg/poems/bulletin080113.htm
Colette (1873–1954) 1873-1954 French novelist: wrote Gigi
Le Pur et l'Impur (The Pure and the Impure) (1932)
Winston S. Churchill book The Second World War
Ending of the Speech to a joint session of the United States Congress, Washington, D.C. (26 December 1941); reported in Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 1897–1963, ed. Robert Rhodes James (1974), vol. 6, p. 6541. The Congressional Record reports that this speech was followed by "Prolonged applause, the Members of the Senate and their guests rising"; Congressional Record, vol. 87, p. 10119.
The Second World War (1939–1945)
Seamus Heaney The Cure at Troy
"Doubletake", from The Cure at Troy (1990)
Poetry Quotes, The Cure at Troy
Context: History says don't hope
On this side of the grave.
But then, once in a lifetime
The longed for tidal wave
Of justice can rise up
And hope and history rhyme.
So hope for a great sea-change
on the far side of revenge.
Believe that a further shore
is reachable from here.
Believe in miracles
and cures and healing wells.
Theodor Mommsen (1817–1903) German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician, archaeologist and writer
Vol. 1, Book II, Chapter 8. "Law. Religion. Military System. Economic Condition. Nationality"
On the lack of individuality in Rome in the first ages of the Republic (in contradisticintion with the Hellenic cultures of Greece)
The History of Rome - Volume 1
Context: As the grave closes alike over all whether important or insignificant, so in the roll of Roman magistrates the empty scion of nobility stands undistinguishable by the side of the great statesmen [men] who had been at the head of the Roman commonwealth, as well as this Roman statesmen and warrior, might be commemorated as having been of noble birth and of manly beauty, valiant and wise; but there was no more to record [of their lives and deeds]] regarding them... The senator was intended to be no worse and no better then other senators, nor at all to differ from them. It was no necessary and not desirable that any burgess should surpess the rest, whether in showy silver plate and Hellenic culture, or in uncommon wisdom and excellence. The Rome of the period belonged to no individual; it was necessary that the burgesses should all be alike..
Charlie Beck (1953) Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department
On usefulness of body cameras for police officers — quoted in: [December 5, 2014, http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/police-departments-buying-body-cams-officers-recording/story?id=27003287&singlePage=true, Police Departments Are Buying Body Cams, and Officers Don't Have to Tell You When They're Recording, December 18, 2014, ABC News, David Wright, Victoria Thompson, Lauren Effron]
Walter Savage Landor Imaginary Conversations
"Aesop and Rhodopè", I.
Imaginary Conversations (1824-1829)