- Heaven, the treasury of everlasting joy (Shakespeare)
- The end and the reward of toil is rest (James Beattie)
- In His will is our peace (Dante)
- Music, when soft voices dies, vibrates in the memory... (Shelley)
- Heaven, the treasury of everlasting joy (Shakespeare)
- The end and the reward of toil is rest (James Beattie)
- In His will is our peace (Dante)
- Music, when soft voices dies, vibrates in the memory... (Shelley)
- Where there is sorrow there is holy ground (Wilde)
- Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal (Moore)
- The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtue (Cicero)
- Things past belong to memory alone, things future are the property of hope (John Home)
- Each lonely scene shall thee restore (William Collins)
- The acts of this life are the destiny of the next (Eastern proverb)
- Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past (Lowell)
- Every man's life is a plan of God (Horace Bushnell)
- Nature's loving proxy, the watchful mother (Bulwer)
- Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule (Cowper)
- Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts, not amid joy (Hemans)
- The soul that suffers is stronger than the soul that rejoices (E. Shepard)
- What seem to us but dim funereal tapers may be Heaven's distant lamps (Longfellow)
- Death is the golden key that opens the palace of Eternity (Milton)
- Sorrows are like tall angels with star-crowns in their hair (Margery Eldredge Howell)
- There is a sweet joy that comes to us through sorrow (Spurgeon)
- Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest (Goethe)
- There never was night that had no morn (D.M.N. Craik)
- The greatest attribute of heaven is mercy (Beaumont and Fletcher)
- God gives us love. Something to love He lends us (Tennyson)
- His daily prayer, far better understood in acts than words, was simply doing good (Whittier)
- Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality (Dickenson)
- Only in darkness can you see the stars (Emerson)
- It is not the length of life, but the depth (Emerson)
- Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail (Emerson)
- We only part to meet again (Gay)
- Onward to thy glory! 'Tis always morning somewhere in the world. (R.H. Horne)
- The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost (Chesterton)
- Joy, joy forever! My task is done - the gates are pass'd, and heaven is won. (Moore)
- The cross leads generations on (Shelley)
- ...The heart of man is restless until it finds its rest in Thee (St. Augustine)
- But in the night of death hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing (Ingersoll)
- Whither though goest, I will go (Ruth 1: 16)
- Life's a voyage that's homeward bound (H. Melville)
- Beyond is the infinite morning of a day without a tomorrow (W.S. Abbott)
- God is and all is well (Whittier)
- Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven (H.W. Beech)
- There is a sweet job that comes to us through sorrow (Spurgeon)
- Earth hath no sorrow that heaven cannot heal (Moore)
- Heaven, the treasury of everlasting joy (Shakespeare)
- Death is not a foe, but an inevitable adventure (Sir Oliver Lodge)
- Every man’s life is a plan of God (Horace Bushnell)
- The acts of this life are the destiny of the next (Eastern proverb)
- The heart of him who truly loves is a paradise on earth (Lamennais)
- Mutual love, the crown of all our bliss (Milton)
- To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another (Leibnitz)
- Humble love, and not proud science, keeps the door of heaven (Young)
- Dust thou art, to dust returnest, was not spoken of the soul (Longfellow)
- Till the master of all good workmen shall set us to work anew (Rudyard Kipling)
- The end and the reward of toil is rest (James Beattie)
- Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past (Lowell)
- Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory... (Shelley)
- Yet in this heart’s most sacred place, thou, alone, shall dwell forever (Moore)
- ..There hath pass’d away a glory from the earth (Wordsworth)
- Death’s but a path to be trod if man would ever pass to God (T. Parnell)
- He hath awakened from the dream of life (Shelley)
- Where He leads me I can safely go (Millay)
- Faith builds a bridge across the gulf of death (Young)
- 'Tis not the whole of life to live, nor all of death to die (J. Montgomery)
- Where there is sorrow there is holy ground (Wilde)
- Now twilight lets her curtain down and pins it with a star (L. M. Child)
Epitaphs and Words of Comfort
General Epitaphs and Words of Comfort
- At rest
- Rest in peace
- In God's loving care
- We will meet again
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For a Father, Husband, Son, Brother
- Rest in peace
- In loving memory
- Entered into rest
- Until we meet again
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For a Mother, Wife, Daughter or Sister
- Sweet in her ways
- She walked in beauty
- The sweetest sounds to mortals given are heard in Mother, Home and Heaven
- A mother's love grows by giving
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For an Infant or Child
- Our little angel
- Remembering a tiny angel
- Sweetly sleeping
- So small, so sweet, so soon
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From the Bible
- In God’s care
- Trust in God
- The Lord is my shepherd
- Death is only a shadow across the path to heaven
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From the Classics
- Heaven, the treasury of everlasting joy (Shakespeare)
- The end and the reward of toil is rest (James Beattie)
- In His will is our peace (Dante)
- Music, when soft voices dies, vibrates in the memory... (Shelley)
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