| Quotes |
Topic |
| Ancestry | I look upon you as a gem of the old rock. |
| Charity | The voice of the world . |
| Comparisons | Not worthy to carry the buckler unto him. |
| Immortality | Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live. |
| Deceit | What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women. |
| Deeds | To be nameless in worthy deeds, exceeds an infamous history. |
| Enemies | Every man is his own greatest enemy, and as it were his own executioner. |
| Errors | Have too rashly charged the troops of error and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth. |
| Eternity | The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity. |
| Faces | It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces there should be none alike. |
| Fame | Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana; he is almost lost that built it. |
| Friends | I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God. |
| God | God is like a skilful Geometrician. |
| Grave | Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years. |
| Grave | He that unburied lies wants not his hearse, For unto him a tomb's the Universe. |
| Haste | Festination may prove Precipitation; Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation. |
| Hell | The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell dwells within myself. |
| Immortality | There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident of no end. |
| Man | Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave. |
| Monuments | Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it; let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes. |
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