There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things: our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while some trees stand, and old families last not three oaks.
タグ: time, grave, generation, family, dying, death, dead, burial

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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.
タグ: us, power, death, life
Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
タグ: grave, noble, animal, man
Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
タグ: worthless, diamonds, brainy, sometimes
There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures.
タグ: our, he, cannot, motto
Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
タグ: live, men, humor, passion
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