Funeral of Pope John Paul II

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    “I make it a kind of pious rule to go to every funeral to which I am invited, both as I wish to pay a proper respect to the dead, unless their characters have been bad, and as I would wish to have the funeral of my own near relations or of myself well attended.”
    —James Boswell (1740–1795)

    “Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts,—a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “‘Tis with our judgments as our watches, none
    Go just alike, yet each believes his own.”
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    “Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.”
    —Bible: New Testament St. John the Divine, in Revelation, 22:20.

    from the penultimate verse in the New Testament; the last is: “The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.”

    “Has Christ been divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?”
    —Bible: New Testament, 1 Corinthians 1:13.