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In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night doth take away Death's second self, that seals up all in rest.
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They are the abstracts and brief chronicles of the time: after your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.
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Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit,
And look on death itself! up, up, and see
The great doom's image!
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The weariest and most loathed worldly life
That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment
Can lay on nature is a paradise
To what we fear of death.
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Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, Where death's approach is seen so terrible!
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A man can die but once; we owe God a death.
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He had rather Groan so in perpetuity, than be cured By the sure physician, death.
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Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.
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If it be aught toward the general good, Set honor in one eye and death i' th' other, And I will look on both indifferently; For let the gods so speed me as I love The name of honor more than I fear death.
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If thou art rich, thou art poor; for, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, thou bearest thy heavy riches but a journey, and death unloads thee.
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May never glorious sun reflex his beams
Upon the country where you make abode!
But darkness and the gloomy shade of death
Environ you till mischief and despair
Drive you to break your necks or hang yourselves.
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I am dying, Egypt, dying; only
I here importune death awhile, until
Of many thousand kisses the poor last
I lay upon thy lips.
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How oft when men are at the point of death
Have they been merry! which their keepers call
A lightning before death.
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Methought I heard a voice cry, 'Sleep no more!
Macbeth does murder sleep,' the innocent sleep,
Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care,
The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,
Chief nourisher in life's feast.
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For death remembered should be like a mirror, Who tells us life's but breath, to trust it error.
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This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would go near to make a man look sad.
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My joy is death- Death, at whose name I oft have been afeard, Because I wish'd this world's eternity.
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Claudio:
Death is a fearful thing.
Isabella:
And shamed life a hateful.
Claudio:
Ay, but to die, and go we know not where;
To lie in cold obstruction and to rot.
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I would to God my name were not so terrible to the enemy as it is: I were better to be eaten to death with rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
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But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
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Seal with a righteous kiss
A dateless bargain to engrossing death!
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There is no sure foundation set on blood,
No certain life achiev'd by others' death.
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Set honor in one eye and death i' the other, And I will look on both indifferently.
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And will 'a not come again? And will 'a not come again? No, no, he is dead, Go to thy death bed: He will never come again.
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This fell sergeant, death,
Is strict in his arrest.
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At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.
Lafcadio Hearn
William Shakespeare
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Born:
April 26, 1564
Died:
April 23, 1616
(aged 51)
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