Men may rise on stepping-stones
Of their dead selves to higher things.
Source: In Memoriam, pt. 1, st. 1.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, (Aug 6 1809-1892), English poet; He was the Poet Laureate, 1850-92 who wrote Charge of the Light Brigade, 1854 and Idylls of the King, 1885.