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3 John (dramatist) Ford Quotes on Death

John (dramatist) Ford quotes on death

  1. Glories Of human greatness are but pleasing dreams, And shadows soon decaying.

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  2. There's not a hair Sticks on my head but, like a leaden plummet, It sinks me to the grave: I must creep thither; The journey is not long.

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  3. There is a place, List, daughter! in a black and hollow vault, Where day is never seen; there shines no sun, But flaming horror of consuming fires; A lightless sulphur, choked with smoky fogs Of an infected darkness; in this place Dwell many thousand thousand sundry sorts Of never-dying deaths.

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