Tomb Sweeping Day

Famous quotes containing the words tomb, sweeping and/or day:

    “Was it the proud full sail of his great verse,
    Bound for the prize of all too precious you,
    That did my ripe thoughts in my brain inherse,
    Making their tomb the womb wherein they grew?
    Was it his spirit, by spirits taught to write
    Above a mortal pitch, that struck me dead?”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “The Sweeping up the Heart
    And putting Love away
    We shall not want to use again
    Until Eternity.”
    —Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)

    “Every man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his marketcare into a chariot of the sun. What a day dawns, when we have taken to heart the doctrine of faith!”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)