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  Quotations About / On: FUNERAL

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  When I
die
I'm sure
I will have a
Big Funeral

 
(Mari E. Evans (1877-1955). The Rebel (l. 1-5). . . Poetry of Black America, The; Anthology of the 20th Century. Arnold Adoff, ed. (1973) Harper & Row.)
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  I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,
 
(Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), U.S. poet. I felt a Funeral, in my Brain (l. 1). CP-Di. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Thomas H. Johnson, ed. (1960) Little, Brown.)
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  The sardonic funeral towers of metropolitan finance.
 
(Lewis Mumford (1895-1990), U.S. social philosopher. The Culture of Cities, introduction (1938).)
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  After the funeral, mule praises, brays,
 
(Dylan Thomas (1914-1953), Welsh poet. After the Funeral (l. 1). . . The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas, 1934-1952 (1953, rev. ed. 1956) New Directions.)
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  When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.
 
(Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887), U.S. clergyman, editor, writer. Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit (1887).)
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  As grand
And griefless as a rich man's funeral.

 
(Sidney Thompson Dobell (1824-1874), British poet. A Musing on a Victory.)
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  What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.
 
(James Russell Lowell (1819-1891), U.S. poet, editor. Address, October 6, 1884, Birmingham, England. "Democracy," Democracy and Other Addresses (1886).)
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  Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
 
(Franηois, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680), French writer, moralist. Ed. FitzGibbon (1957). Sentences et Maximes Morales, no. 593 (1664).)
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