William Shakespeare Quotes About Mortality
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Do not speak like a death's-head, do not bid me remember mine end.
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Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But bad mortality o'ersways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower?
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Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had liv'd a blessed time; for, from this instant, There's nothing serious in mortality: All is but toys; renown, and grace is dead; The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of.
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Jesu, Jesu, the mad days that I have spent! And to see how many of my old acquaintance are dead!
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Retire me to my Milan, where Every third thought shall be my grave.
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No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape; back- wounding calumny The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?
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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend.
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Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all, all shall die.
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O, let me kiss that hand! KING LEAR: Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality.
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There is nothing serious in Mortality
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