"He that dies pays all debts."
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"Let me be boiled to death with melancholy."
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"O wretched state! o bosom black as 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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"Death-counterfeiting sleep."
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"Then is it sin to rush into the secret house of death. Ere death dare come to us?"
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"Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living."
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"Then love-devouring Death do what he dare."
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"Death, not Romeo, take my maidenhead!"
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"Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all."
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"I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death."
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"Live how we can, yet die we must."
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"One good deed dying tongueless Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. Our praises are our wages."
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"Death is the quiet haven of us all."
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"The good die first, and they whose hearts are dry as summer dust, burn to the socket."
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"And mighty poets in their misery dead."
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"The clouds that gather round the setting sun, Do take a sober colouring from an eye, That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality."
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"Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?"
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"Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks."
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"Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin."
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