Sentences with Grave, Sentences about Grave

Sentences with Grave, Sentences about Grave

1. Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.

2. My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.

3. Never use an adverb to modify the verb “said”…he admonished gravely.

4. In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.

5. Life is not a solo but a chorus. We live in relationships from cradle to grave.

6. He was a man without a past, whose future was the imminent grave and whose present was a bitter fever of living.

7. Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

8. Under a grave and gentle exterior burned inextinguishable fires of sympathy, energy, devotion, enthusiasm, and absolutely limitless affection.

9. Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.

10. The human heart beats approximately 4,000 times per hour and each pulse, each throb, each palpitation is a trophy engraved with the words ‘you are still alive.

11. A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

12. But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.

13. There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.

14. For the whole earth is the tomb of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions in their own country, but in foreign lands there dwells also an unwritten memorial of them, graven not on stone but in the hearts of men.

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