William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Retire me to my Milan, where Every third thought shall be my grave."
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Graves
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Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"We shall dig our own grave if we do not purge ourselves of this curse of untouchability."
Isaac Watts
Hymn Writer, Poet
"There's no repentance in the grave."
Jerry West
Basketball Player
"I'm just ultracompetitive. I will be till they put me in the grave."
Elizabeth I
Queen
"I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive."
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"There is plenty of time to sleep in the grave"
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"I have suffered two grave accidents in my life, one in which a streetcar knocked me down... The other accident is Diego."
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"Most people go to their grave with their music inside them."
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"I won’t bet $100 against house odds between now and the grave."
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"I'll stand over your grave 'til I'm sure that you're dead."
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"I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!"
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"Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone."
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"He who shall teach the child to doubtThe rotting grave shall ne'er get out."
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"She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and oh The difference to me!"
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"And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet."
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"Only where there are graves are there resurrections."
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"Grammar is the grave of letters."
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"The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken."
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"I didn't know I had this many fans in Puerto Rico. I'm going to carry this memory to my grave."
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"O fallen angel, the companion within me, whisper something holy before you pinch me into the grave."
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"O heart, and mind, and thoughts! what thing do you Hope to inherit in the grave below?"
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"Amusement allures and deceives us and leads us down imperceptibly in thoughtlessness to the grave"
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"And either victory, or else a grave."
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"Every man is grave alone."
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"Even I, as sick as I am, I would never be you. Even I, sick and depraved, a traveler to the grave, I would never be you."
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