The individual man is transitory, but the pulse of life and of growth goes on after he is gone, buried under a wreath of magnolia leaves.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.
Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time of joyful hope and profound gratitude.
If a tree dies, plant another in its place.
A man is known by his works. That I have heard at many a funeral.
A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.
One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
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