Famous quotes containing the word ashes:
“We therefore commit his body to the ground; earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection.”
—The Burial Service, Book of Common Prayer (1662)
“To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds
For the ashes of his fathers
And the temples of his gods,”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (18001859)
“But he though blind of sight,
Despisd and thought extinguisht quite,
With inward eyes illuminated
His fierie vertue rouzd
From under ashes into sudden flame,
And as an evning Dragon came,”
—John Milton (16081674)
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