Quote #10
I know death hath ten thousand several doors For men to take their exits.
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- Of what is't fools make such vain keeping? Sin their conception, their birth, weeping: Their life, a general mist of error, Their death, a …
- Heaven-gates are not so highly arched As princes' palaces; they that enter there Must go upon their knees.
- Glories, like glowworms, afar off shine bright, But looked to near have neither heat nor light.
- Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle: she died young.
- Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear; But seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near.
- Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, Like diamonds, we are cut with our own dust.
- But keep the wolf far thence, that's foe to men, For with his nails he'll dig them up again.
- Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin.