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  -- John Dryden, epitaph intended for his wife...
• What needs my Shakespeare for his honour'd bones,-- The labour of an age in piled stones?
  Or that his hallow'd relics should be hid Under a star-y-pointing pyramid?...
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• EPITAPH, n. An inscription on a tomb, showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.
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• It's all so painfully empty and lonesome... I don't think I can stand any more of it.
  .. the whole dreadful way we are born, die, and are never missed....
• It's all so painfully empty and lonesome... I don't think I can stand any more of it.
  .. the whole dreadful way we are born, die, and are never missed....
• Underneath this stone doth lie As much beauty as could die
  Which in life did harbour give To more virtue than doth live....
• The earth, that's nature's mother, is her tomb. -- William Shakespeare
• Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie. -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Arcades, Line 68