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01c. 1565 AD

Let the world slide, let the world go; A fig for care, and a fig for woe! If I can't pay, why I can owe, And death makes equal the high and low.

John Heywood / quote

02c. 1591 AD

Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six, Four spend in prayer, the rest on Nature fix.

Sir Edward Coke / quote

03c. 1585 AD

Go, Soul, the body's guest, Upon a thankless arrant: Fear not to touch the best, The truth shall be thy warrant: Go, since I needs must die, And give the world the lie.

Sir Walter Raleigh / quote

04c. 1585 AD

Methought I saw the grave where Laura lay.

Sir Walter Raleigh / quote

05c. 1585 AD

Cowards [may] fear to die; but courage stout, Rather than live in snuff, will be put out.

Sir Walter Raleigh / quote

06c. 1585 AD

Even such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days. But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust!

Sir Walter Raleigh / quote

07c. 1585 AD

O eloquent, just, and mightie Death! whom none could advise, thou hast perswaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised. Thou hast drawne together all the farre stretchèd greatnesse, all the pride, crueltie, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hic jacet!

Sir Walter Raleigh / quote

08c. 1595 AD

'T is immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven.

George Chapman / quote

09c. 1590 AD

Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born.

Samuel Daniel / quote

10c. 1597 AD

When faith is kneeling by his bed of death, And innocence is closing up his eyes, Now if thou wouldst, when all have given him over, From death to life thou might'st him yet recover.

Michael Drayton / quote

11c. 1590 AD

I would fain die a dry death.

William Shakespeare / quote

12c. 1590 AD

This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. . . . There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.

William Shakespeare / quote

13c. 1590 AD

The sense of death is most in apprehension; And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.

William Shakespeare / quote

14c. 1590 AD

Ay, but to die, and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world.

William Shakespeare / quote

15c. 1590 AD

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.

William Shakespeare / quote

16c. 1590 AD

Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humour? No, the world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

William Shakespeare / quote

17c. 1590 AD

Done to death by slanderous tongues.

William Shakespeare / quote

18c. 1590 AD

This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would go near to make a man look sad.

William Shakespeare / quote

19c. 1590 AD

I am a tainted wether of the flock, Meetest for death: the weakest kind of fruit Drops earliest to the ground.

William Shakespeare / quote

20c. 1590 AD

Speak me fair in death.

William Shakespeare / quote

21c. 1590 AD

The hind that would be mated by the lion Must die for love.

William Shakespeare / quote

22c. 1590 AD

If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour!

William Shakespeare / quote

23c. 1590 AD

'T is beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on: Lady, you are the cruell'st she alive If you will lead these graces to the grave And leave the world no copy.

William Shakespeare / quote

24c. 1590 AD

Out of the jaws of death.

William Shakespeare / quote