Charles Kingsley (1819–1875) English clergyman, historian and novelist
Source: Attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 262.
Paschal Homily
Charles Kingsley (1819–1875) English clergyman, historian and novelist
Source: Attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 262.
Dwight L. Moody (1837–1899) American evangelist and publisher
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 101.
Julia Ward Howe (1819–1910) American abolitionist, social activist, and poet
What is Religion? (1893)
Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist
Napoleon the Little (1852), Conclusion, Part Second, II
Napoleon the Little (1852)
“Let me say
and not mourn: the world
lives in the death of speech
and sings there.”
Wendell Berry (1934) author
The Silence.
Poems
Felix Adler (1851–1933) German American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, and lecturer
Founding Address (1876), Life and Destiny (1913)
Context: Let us learn from the lips of death the lessons of life. Let us live truly while we live, live for what is true and good and lasting. And let the memory of our dead help us to do this. For they are not wholly separated from us, if we remain loyal to them. In spirit they are with us. And we may think of them as silent, invisible, but real presences in our households.
“Let no man fear to die: We love to sleep all,
And death is but the sounder sleep.”
John Fletcher The Humorous Lieutenant
Act III, scene 6.
The Humorous Lieutenant (c. 1619; published 1647)
John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author
Source: A Thousand-Mile Walk To the Gulf, 1916, chapter 4: Camping Among the Tombs, page 140