Friedrich Tholuck Quote

The grave is a very small hillock, but we can see farther from it, when standing on it, than from the highest mountain in all the world.


Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 291.


The grave is a very small hillock, but we can see farther from it, when standing on it, than from the highest mountain in all the world.

The grave is a very small hillock, but we can see farther from it, when standing on it, than from the highest mountain in all the world.

The grave is a very small hillock, but we can see farther from it, when standing on it, than from the highest mountain in all the world.

The grave is a very small hillock, but we can see farther from it, when standing on it, than from the highest mountain in all the world.